Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each new temple, nobler than the last," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast!" Poet Holmes was referring to mansions of the soul, but he might well have been prophesying today's pharaonic era of sports-stadium construction, in which city after city vies to encapsulate its populace in ever nobler temples and vaster domes...
...Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
...water and flipped up, over, back, skim, up, over, back. Broods of ducks, a few sculls, the Boston skyline, the beginnings of rush hour traffic, and a Coca Cola sign that flashed "7:32, 74 degrees," all passed by; the emerging sun sent gold glints off the State House dome...
...Congress has seemed capable of achieving consensus only on minor energy measures. Last week, in an unusual display of unanimity, the Senate voted 91 to 0 to build up a three-month national reserve of oil by storehousing supplies in salt domes, idle tankers and even abandoned mines-a sound precaution but hardly a basic solution. By an impressive margin of 391 to 20, the House decided to allow commercial oil drilling in the Elk Hills, Buena Vista and Teapot Dome reserves, which have been husbanded for emergency military use. But two of the fields are small and already partially...
...makes an incision in the front of the ankle, saws off the top of the talus, or anklebone, and cuts a wedge-shaped opening in the bottom of the tibia, the larger of the two lower leg bones. He then inserts the metal into the tibia and fastens the dome to the talus. Each part is held in place with a special bone cement. The tension of the leg and ankle tendons holds the joint together and keeps the T in contact with-but able to move on-the dome. Most of the three dozen patients who have received...