Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the shallow, dome-shaped hill was lost in smoke and dust. Spitfires swooped in wide spirals, loosing their rockets. Gradually the quick chatter of the rebels' Breda and Spandau machine guns was subdued and the slower Greek army Brens took over. Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest. The position had been taken...
...York Stock Exchange last week a 10,000-share block of Dome Mines Ltd. (gold) was sold at 16¼ a share. The seller: Wall Street's Clifford Michel, Dome Mines president. Next day, when Dome cut its quarterly dividend (from 25? Canadian to 17½?), the value of the 10,000 shares dropped $11,250. Then, before anybody could cry "inside unloading," Clifford Michel stepped up, canceled the sale, and gave his reasons...
...shares belonged to the late Jules S. Bache, longtime Dome Mines president. Michel, trustee of the estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
Royal Greeting. Into the Old City of Jerusalem one day last week came King Abdullah of Trans Jordan, clad in a new uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
...working their way through the rubble, squads of tough Arabs laid charges close to the walls of Tiferet Israel synagogue. Now Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...