Word: crescentic
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...palace as a towering pile of concrete blocks. The base is a block 130 feet square, for official receptions; atop it is a smaller, two-story block for executive offices. Placed above both is the governor's residence, with a roof garden above it, sheltered by an enormous crescent of concrete. A short distance away, with the Himalayas as a background, Chandigarh will have its crowning edifice: a simple, saucer-shaped amphitheater with a huge, free-swinging mobile at one end cast in the shape of an open hand, a traditional Indian symbol of friendship and welcome...
Union Jack & Crescent. Half a century ago a cocky and flamboyant young British journalist named Winston Churchill wrote: "The Sudan is naturally and geographically an integral part of Egypt." The Egyptians thought...
...British raised the Union Jack and Egypt's Crescent side by side over Khartoum, and proclaimed a weird device for joint British-Egyptian government called the Condominium. It was a formality only; the British ruled, the Egyptians did little more than pay some of the bills. In 1924 the British threw the remaining troops of their "copartner" out of the Sudan; 16 months ago, the Egyptians got equally fed up. They denounced the Condominium and proclaimed Egypt's sovereignty over the Sudan; the nationalists' outcry for the Sudan moved from Cairo's streets into the world...
...again. Ahead, a staff sergeant named Stanley Main crouched, groping gently for the trip wires of Chinese mines. He rose, went on, crouched again. Finally the paddies were behind. The ground rose. Trails thinned out. Brush materialized in the darkness. Then, ahead, dim against the glow of the sickly crescent moon, Sergeant Main made out the ridge he was seeking. Nine Marines fanned quietly out to establish a base of fire. Main, a second sergeant with a submachine-gun and two riflemen circled with infinite caution toward the top, sniffing like animals for the smell of garlic, the telltale odor...
...next day the press watch in Beverly Hills began early and lasted long. Aly arrived for lunch and stayed & stayed. The press grew restive. and clamored for an audience. In desperation, newsmen formed a crescent on Rita's lawn, fell to their knees, salaaming and pleading. At last Aly appeared. Would he and Rita . . .? "Everything is going fine," answered Aly. Then he proposed a mutually agreeable truce to the press: go now and come back tomorrow for pictures and interviews. That evening it was three-year-old Yasmin who did more than anyone else to promote a reconciliation. Somehow...