Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Furuya died, the Tigers were scheduled to play the Yomiurim Giants in the Tokyo Dome stadium. They went ahead with the game, but not before Manager Minoru Murayama declared the team wanted to win at any cost, in memory of Furuya. They lost...
...boffo-lobby hotels that were in fashion for a while, was a tourist * attraction, drawing sightseers to look at its 23-story atrium and its glass elevators that went, as they said at the time, "clean through the roof" to a revolving restaurant in a giant blue dome. The Hyatt Regency became the symbol of the city, in the tradition of New York's Empire State Building and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- so much so that people who wanted to commit suicide in a showy way started diving from its upper floors into the lobby. Today the Hyatt...
Smith's house is relatively comfortable, a book-filled two-story cottage under a geodesic dome. Smith serves not only as pastor but also as school principal, ombudsman and civic planner. How, he prods a meeting of neighborhood residents, can we get more water pipes extended into the houses? When he walks his rounds through the back streets of Mamelodi, youngsters playing soccer call out the one word that is both recognition and greeting: "Smith! Smith...
...vagina into the uterus. A thimble-shaped device made from rubber or plastic and measuring about 1 1/2 in. in diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...
...Midshipmen are in tip-top shape. They beat the men's lacrosse team, 10-9, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Middies go on to get crushed by Syracuse, 23-9 in the Carrier Dome...