Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does inadvertently achieve a curious cumulative impression of famous and infamous faces under the wear & tear of time. Hitler ages visibly from the bedraggled but hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour...
Both the pact and the agreement had been accomplished during the incognito travels of a man known in London as "Mr. Smith," in Washington as "Mr. Brown." He was the Soviet Union's affable, square-dome Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who reached London...
...nosed through the harbor nets in the Loire estuary under a bright dome of anti-aircraft fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every...
...excellent start. As Britain's envoy it would be his privilege, if he wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space...
...alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...