Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had Irish nationalists blown down Dublin's famed Nelson pillar in O'Connell Street last March, 50 years after the Easter rebellion, than the great stone head of Admiral Horatio Nelson himself disappeared, hijacked by a group of Irish art students. The boys sold it for $840 to London Antique Dealer Benjamin Gray, who carried it back to England and set it up in his shop. Now Gray has decided to return to Ireland the 220-lb. souvenir of the great column that had stood for 157 years as a symbol of English domination. But, faith, nobody...
...wall of red flame leaped 3,000 ft., followed by a coiling pillar of oily black smoke that rose five miles and was visible 150 miles offshore. Exclaimed Commander Charles R. Smith, 39, of Dalhart, Texas, who wrestled his Vigilante reconnaissance plane through the heat and flames to photograph the holocaust: "It looked as if we had wiped out the entire world's supply...
...will pull his pillar down...
...wife turned into a pillar...
Divorced. By Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 58, well-versed Shakespearean actress and pillar of Britain's Old Vic: Jeremy Hutchinson, 50, London barrister whose roster of clients has included Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Party-girl Christine Keeler; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 25 years of marriage, two children; in London...