Word: shrine
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...Constitution has the aura of the sacred about it. It occupies a shrine up in the higher stretches of American reverence. A citizen imagines sun-shot clouds, the founders hovering in the air like saints in religious...
...this Bicentennial year, fiestas are swirling around the shrine of the Constitution. In Philadelphia there are endless parties, picnics and explications. The pageantry is perfectly American. Yet the nation may have grown a little weary of such celebrations. The skies of the '80s have been filled with red, white and blue balloons. In the waning Reagan years, the note of national self-congratulation sounds hollow...
...friend, her pastor wants to move her into an old-age home -- and, not incidentally, thereby make her give up the backyard Mecca of Magi, camels, owls and other mystical sculptures she has built from cement, rusting wire, ground-up glass bottles and found objects. Her house is a shrine to her, an eyesore to neighbors, a mark of witchcraft to children and an affront both personal and theological to the pastor and his church...
...shooting was the latest Sikh reprisal for the Indian army's 1984 attack on Punjab's Golden Temple, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, which left more than 600 dead. Vaidya was then army Chief of Staff. Those killed in retaliation include Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was gunned down in 1984 by her own Sikh bodyguards...
...drawing card, and since tourism is about the only thing it has in the way of a business, there you are. Boothill graveyard holds the remains of scores who did not go gentle into that good night. The main drag, Allen Street, is virtually a shrine to the trigger- happy, to soiled doves and to strong drink. Hiring on as a deputy in April 1984, McNeely thought he spotted some connection between Tombstone's historic character and its contemporary behavior: "I mean, people ran stop signs right in front...