Word: domes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next two hours police chased the agile, cursing demonstrators around the 30-acre Temple Mount and through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Protesters, tourists and the police themselves choked on the cloud of tear gas that enshrouded the golden Dome of the Rock, the ciborium that stands on the site from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome...
...UPON a time there were some people who had nothing important to do. This caused them to go insane. They knew that Harvard was located in a place that had so many stores selling condoms that Harvard Square alone could supply enough protective material to create a strategic defense dome over the nation. They even knew that the University Health Services offered every conceivable form of student at a nominal price. They knew this, and yet insanity's heinous shroud had enveloped their minds...
...different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in my heart the clocklike precision and sweeping grandeur of design that marks the natural world. The cerulean dome that arcs above our mortal heads remains, as ever, a mystery to my soul and mind...
...complained, Sir Christopher Wren's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral has been overshadowed by a jumble of ugly office buildings. "In the space of a mere 15 years, in the '60s and '70s, your predecessors as the planners, architects and developers wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St. Paul's," the Prince lectured the stunned black-tie audience...
...courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious decision, but to a sort of collective fit of absence of mind...