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Word: rome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEAR 73 A.D. a group of Canaanites held down the last stronghold of resistance against the inevitably victorious legions of Rome. From their desert fortress, the defenders and their families, cognizant of the fact that the rest of their nation had fallen, watched the Roman soldiers encircle them. The situation was hopeless, they decided; even if they fought off this wave of soldiers another would come, and then another--as many as it would take--until the siege snuffed out the defenders. With all this in mind, the defenders of the embattled mountaintop called Masada decided that the only logical...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...habitual agitator. He left Colorado 20 years ago, after winning fleeting local fame by outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy baritone and eclectic repertoire of folk, rock and mellow protest songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...according to Salkind, or roughly four times its original budget. This strained the considerable ingenuity of Ilya's father Alexander, who finds the backers and has veto power on major decisions. The project has gone through three infusions of scriptwriters, two directors and a change of location from Rome to London, after many sets had been constructed in Italy. At one time a money shortage almost caused production to stop. Marlon Brando had walked off with his $3.7 million for playing Superman's father, but Stamp was told that he could not be paid on time. Tempers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Here Comes Superman!!! | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...erected anywhere. It is is the largest church in a country already rich in religious edifices, and the fifth largest in the world.* Its vaulting (175 ft. high under the tower) is higher than any other, its length (619 ft.) second only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars and a depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Masterpiece for Merseyside | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...other four; St. Peter's Basalica in Rome, Seville Cathedral in Spain, Milan Cathedral still unfinished, Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Masterpiece for Merseyside | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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