Word: firmament
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...managed to restore much of the splendor and prestige of the old days of Mary Garden and Samuel Insull. Night after winter night, the huge Civic Opera House was sibilant with mink and sables while the stage vibrated under the temperaments of the highest-priced stars in the operatic firmament, e.g., Maria Meneghini Callas, Renata Tebaldi. Opera lovers began to think that the Lyric group might succeed where others had failed...
Hoffa's attempted deal with the I.L.A. had demonstrated that his prime interest is not a clean waterfront but a teamster-dominated waterfront. It was characteristic of the methods that have made Jimmy Hoffa, 43, one of the hottest new stars in labor's firmament and the man most likely to succeed the aging (61) Dave Beck as boss of the 1,400,000-man I.B.T...
...this and have been quick to capitalize on any discontent, especially in the bureaucracy. Pibul realizes the danger and has begun to prevent or prepare for such an eventuality. His failure would probably mean the loss of the West's most certainally in the Far East to the communist firmament...
Britain's new Foreign Secretary and fast-rising new star in the Tory firmament: John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd...
...mission in a jet bomber over the North Pole. They struggled with veering winds, lack of landmarks, and the odd behavior of magnetism and celestial bodies in the polar regions. All this they did without leaving a windowless concrete building that contains a reasonable facsimile of the starry firmament on high...