Word: dome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long, full, Out of Africa skirt," Alexander writes at one point, she set out to trace her poet's imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins." The location...
Everything is just about ready. in Orlando, Florida, painters have finished the massive black and white panels that have transformed the copper dome of the new city hall into a giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...
...then the squad began hitting rocks, losing five on a six-game string. The Crimson was blanked by Rutgers and California at the Golden Dome Classic in Newark, N.J., and, after edging past Dartmouth at home, 3-1, lost of Rutgers, 3-0, nemesis Princeton, 3-0, and Springfield, 3-1. The team was 5-7 and the Princeton match-up seemed a distant dream...
Nixon had shown an interest in politics since the age of six, when he began reading news of current events and talking about them with his father. When he was 11, the Teapot Dome scandal prompted him to announce to his mother, "I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe." The practice of law in Whittier was hardly so inspiring. Taken into the firm of a family friend, he spent his first day dusting the books in the office library, then bungled his first case, losing all his client's money in a real estate deal. But he persevered...
Delgado hit two mammoth home runs in his first two games at Sky-dome. One of them hit the Hard Rock Cafe beyond the outfield wall...