Word: altare
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...world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal water will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world...
...little Trinity Chapel (Episcopal) on the Old York Road candles burned in the windows and on the altar. As people fresh from their radios and the great news of the Japanese surrender began to gather, the organ swelled out A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. There were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, two modestly dressed Quaker women, and many who had never been seen at church before...
...cool crypt under the high altar...
...altar, he is perfectly willing to sacrifice, if necessary, the Western ideal of freedom. But he spends much time rationalizing the sacrifice. Wrote Laski last year: "If the Communist Party of the Soviet Union left the central principle of its faith to the chance decision of an electorate . . . that would be as remarkable as a willingness on the part of Western democracies to see without repining the access of socialist parties to the state power...
Publishers, laying their billfolds on the altar of history, were hotly competing for every big-name rehash of yesterday's news...