Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of Israeli independence, the apartment where I sit was a field behind an Arab villa. Jerusalem was a city of Jordan, and King Hussein was at his grandfather's side when the first King Abdullah was assassinated here in 1951. King Hussein personally financed the renovation of the Dome of the Rock and the demolition of the Jewish quarter, and before the Six-Day War in 1967, Amman seemed a world away from Israel politically. The distance and the military controls continued through the Gulf War, when Jordan chose to side with Iraq; only in the messy political aftermath...
Dikembe Mutombo has broken two noses in three games. Charles Barkley was fined $5,000 for "directing obscene language" at the Forum crowd. Steve Smith and Kendall Gill carried an on-court scrap into the tunnel at the Georgia Dome, earning each a $2,500 hit in the paycheck...
White bulbs on a hot baby-blue background: the message board in the St. Louis Trans World Dome scrolls WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION WITH HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II. The Dome's 70,000 capacity is stretched to 100,000. Betty and Ed, after hours on a chartered yellow school bus and in line for metal detectors, have drawn spectacular second-row seats: they can almost touch the stream of priests flowing across the floor toward the great papal seal. A jumbo screen shows the approaching Popemobile, just half an hour away. She twists a silver ring again...
...Pope can certainly see none. In his homily before 100,000 people in St. Louis' Trans World Sports Dome, the pope spoke eloquently. "Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform," he said. The death penalty is "cruel and unnecessary," he added, "even in the case of someone who has done great evil...
That sent the Vikings into next Sunday's conference championship against Atlanta, meaning that a dome team will play in the Super Bowl for the first time ever. It will be the first conference title game played indoors, a party the Vikings have been planning since the day they reported to training camp last summer...