Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greece). Rose petals pelted him as the procession moved past half a million people. "Viva!" they yelled (while the Communists chanted "Hyphesis"-Down with Tension). Ike could see the Parthenon glowing in light on the Acropolis, the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and a small obelisk monument to Americans who were killed in Greece's 1821-29 war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. At the Parliament Building, the royal guard of evzones, in their familiar red fezzes and frilled skirts, were drawn up to watch Ike lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...community. But the 300 Negroes of Teviston had a promise of bounty that seemed greater than all the growing things in the green valley: fresh water that would run to every house in Teviston from the deep well on the empty lot. And standing over the well like a monument, was the gift (sold at half price by one company, installed at no charge by another) that they had given to each other-the pride of the new Teviston Water District-a big, blue, beautiful pump...
Last week the Southern California Dental Hospital stood as a glittering, $1,750,000 glass-and-marble monument to Hay's initiative. On Sunset Boulevard, hard by Los Angeles' "hospital row," it is the nation's (perhaps the world's) first hospital built exclusively for dentistry. And it was as empty as a freshly prepared dental cavity. Hay's planning had foreseen everything-except how to get patients in. Dental cowardice is a common ailment...
...nation's aluminum; at Anzio, south of Rome, the greatest excitement since the Allied landing is Colgate-Palmolive's new $10 million soap and cosmetics plant, turning out 120 different items on a semi-automated production line. "That plant," says one admiring competitor, "is a monument to private enterprise...
...River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture...