Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states of our nation." Appearing before a joint session of the state legislature, Volpe was urging the formation of a Citizens Crime Commission to root out, among other things, illegal gambling. The Governor had good cause for concern-for by last week it appeared that beneath its gilded dome, the Massachusetts Statehouse itself was one of Boston's busiest bookie joints...
...merely censure him for his indiscretion. But even as the committee met, Senate President John Powers, a Democrat, fired Robert G. Connolly, a former Democratic legislator who is now chief of the capitol's documents room, for "operating a bookie joint right over our heads beneath the sacred dome." Cried Powers: "He had a radio there. He had 'green sheets' there. People gathered there. There is no question in my mind." Powers' suspicions of State House gambling were aroused when he had to break up a fist fight between two Senate pages who were battling over...
Florence of full summer, blue sky and golden stones, with the lazy Arno flowing under and Brunelleschi's grand dome floating over all. A darkly handsome young Italian (George Hamilton) of good family falls suddenly, Mediterribly in love with the blonde beauty, and the girl falls instantly, Americandidly in love with him. What should the mother do? On the one hand, she longs to see her daughter married; on the other, she fears with good reason that the mental demands of marriage would be too much for her. Still, the girl is quite healthy in her feelings: innocent, loving...
...French boarding school. Then the place burned to the ground. Sorin concluded that the Mother of God had "to show me that my vision was too narrow." In four months flat, Sorin and the faculty raised the huge main building that still stands, topped with the golden dome that is Notre Dame's landmark. The school pushed on with its work, for many years under the Rev. William Corby, whose campus statue has long tagged him as "Fair Catch" Corby...
...Quincy (1932-49), an internationally famed rehabilitator of railroads who in 1906 rebuilt the line that served the Panama Canal, was a consultant in the reorganization of the Soviet Union's badly managed rail routes in 1930 and introduced America's first diesel-powered streamliners and bubble-dome cars; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...