Word: solely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Jews the world over have been praying for and toward Jerusalem for 2,000 years, thrice daily; Moslems face five times daily toward their holiest site-Mecca. For Christians, Nazareth and Bethlehem have been destinations of pilgrims. For the Jew the world over, only Jerusalem remains as the sole center of his religion...
...single item since Catherine the Great. Of pogroms and general misery, Nicky knew only what he was told. Of the good features of Russian life-the upsurge of national genius in fiction, poetry and science-he knew little, and what little he did know he did not like. His sole success was in contriving some sort of private life for himself and Alicky. At Czarskoe Selo (the Czar's village), the Romanovs had contrived a sort of toy world, protected from the real one by a high iron fence and 5,000 guardsmen. Here Nicky and Alicky lived their...
...evening's sole venture into the contemporary idiom was unfortunately more a venture into the field of corn. Kirke Mechem's The Shepherd and His Love was given its first performance. This frivolous piece of trivia proved to be little more than a sophisticated homage to Richard Rodgers. But it was performed with spirit and must have pleased the composer who was present for the occasion...
Gino Cappelletti booted a 37-yard field goal for the Patriots sole score...
Infuriated, the Japanese struck back with their sole remaining carrier, the Hiryu. Diving through intense U.S. fire, the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes, far superior to then-existing American models, slammed three bombs through the carrier Yorktown. Among the casualties was Seaman George Weise, who was blown so high that he hit the wing of a passing plane-and survived...