Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church's dome started burning. Elderly Fireman Thompson scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...
...Capital. Washington in 1860 was "an idea set in a wilderness." "As in 1800 and 1850, so in 1860," wrote Henry Adams, "the same rude colony was camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads." The dome of the Capitol had been torn down for repairs; of hundreds of Corinthian columns, only three were in place. The rest lay scattered about the lawns among blocks of marble, lumber, iron, workmen's sheds, heaps of coal and wood. Augustly seated among the debris was the statue of George Washington, "modeled...
...bribery case that his paper figured was too hot to handle. He took his story to the PD, was hired, and Johns, then an editorial writer, promptly had it printed. Bovard stayed on to become nationally celebrated for his successful six-year struggle to crack the Teapot Dome scandal...
Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
...velvet-padded stool on the green grass beside the fence of the half-ruined Royal Palace in Belgrade, a Nazi officer-artist sat sketching the toppled dome of one of the Palace wings. New York Times's Correspondent Ray Brock, back on his old beat, strolled up and asked what the drawing was for. The officer told him it was for the German picture magazine Signal. Then, to Correspondent Brock's surprise, the officer suddenly became very voluble...