Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the demonstrators. Behind the marchers now, I looked up the line, across the 2000 bobbing heads. At the front were two huge flags, one of the United States and one of the United Nations, flapping in the wind. Higher up and to the right loomed the very white dome, topped by a Confederate flag and the modified Confederate flag that Alabama has chosen...
...Houston last week, four huge Carrier motors that will climatize the city's new Astrodome-enclosed sports stadium were test-run in preparation for next month's baseball season opener. The equipment will keep temperatures under the dome in the moderate 70s, and will also clear away cigarette and cigar smoke so that outfielders can see a baseball 550 ft. away. The air conditioners will operate continuously; if the motors were turned off between games, so much humidity would collect under the dome that rain would fall indoors...
...warned that "the large quantities of oil in small acreages belonging in part to a Naval oil reserve would seem certain to stimulate recollections of Teapot Dome and Elk Hills...
Dawn broke cold and grey. Calm in its majesty beside the Thames, the palace of Westminster emerged from the drifting mist. Across the river stood the starkly modern outline of Festival Hall, its garden windows catching the first pale light. Far downstream, the dome and finial of St. Paul's Cathedral were faintly etched against the wintry sky. Between these two points, Westminster and St. Paul's, gathered a million men and women and the children they brought with them to capture the scene in memory. Via Telstar and television, millions the world over watched the obsequies...
...also in St. Paul's, as the funeral service drew to a close with God Save the Queen. There was a long pause, and then from high in the Whispering Gallery a Royal Horse Guards trumpeter sounded the Last Post, its plaintive notes ascending and echoing round the dome itself. In answer, from across the cathedral, came the bugle call of Reveille played by a Royal Irish Hussar, a hearty and heartening last trump that would have stirred the old warrior's blood...