Word: doric
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With its finely wrought balustrade, the Doric columns supporting its portico, the Villa Pietri looked like a Roman nobleman's villa that had somehow been misplaced on the edge of the African continent. It was the headquarters from which Gaddafi directed the global activities of his terrorist network. The Libyan leader himself had assigned those who went out from the villa to do his bidding their leitmotif: "Everything that puts an infected thorn in the foot of our enemies is good...
...Robin Williams on the finer points of wrestling-but prudently did not participate. "Whether the subject is Viennese cuisine, bodybuilding or Russian novelists, Irving is equally at ease and in control," says Sheppard. "He's a man of great energy, humor and discipline-all held together by a Doric grace." On arriving for his second visit to the Irving home in Vermont, Sheppard was challenged by the growling family dog, Stranger, while Irving unhelpfully remained inside. Says Sheppard: "I don't know if he was testing my perseverance, but if the dog had bitten me I would have...
After two scoreless periods, Yale forward Beverly Doric blasted a 20-ft. slapshot past senior Nelia Worsley's glove side at 3:27. Eli Lynn Cruishank added a power-play goal at 10:18, making...
Roxbury High is a five-story building of tan stone with Doric columns and statues of Greek goddesses over the green front door and spray-painted first names and last initials around the back. Inside, as classes change, the first thing you notice is that most of the students are black, Chinese, or Spanish and most of the teachers are white...
...would give birth to Christ. In the history of a civilization that abounded in images of the Madonna, Gabriel recurred insistently, whether as the impassive, rhythmically contorted enamel figure on the 11th century cover of the Ariberto breviary in Milan or the rainbow-winged presence, solid as a Doric column, who confronts a submissive Mary in Fra Angelico's Annunciation...