Word: spectacular
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...atmosphere. But, he adds, the atmosphere itself might have been disturbed or even partially swept away. The explosion, for example, might have blown off some atmospheric helium. It could also account for puzzling conditions on other planets, such as the lack of measurable nitrogen on Mars. Perhaps the most spectacular possibility raised by Gold is that one whole side of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, might have been seared by the blast...
...fringes of society like that of the American hippies or Dutch Provos, because society can easily contain the marginal revolts of individuals. The only recourse was a frontal attack against society by relusing all legitimacy and doing the illegal. The focal point was direct action, violent and spectacular confrontation through personal insult, scandal, provocation, violent street demonstrations, and breaking of police lines. The aim was to ridicule...
Died. Robert Greenlease, 87, central figure in one of recent history's most spectacular kidnapings, who in 1953 paid $600,000 ransom for the return of his young son Bobby, only to learn that he had been brutally murdered before the ransom was delivered; of pneumonia; in Mission Hills, Kans...
...emissaries, the story goes, were so taken by the beauty of the Byzantine liturgy and Constantinople's churches that they urged the prince to adopt that mode of Christianity. Vladimir's churches reflect the Russian efforts to carry on the Byzantine architectural tradition. The most spectacular is the Cathedral of the Assumption, whose gleaming gold cupola is visible for miles around...
...beeswax for Scandinavian amber, Arab coins and Volga pottery. Today, it is a favorite stop for Sputnik International Youth Groups, who stay in the famed Red Chamber that once housed visiting czars, including Peter the Great. Its sprawling kremlin is, next to Moscow's own, the most spectacular in Russia. Forty years abuilding, the Rostov Kremlin incorporates the Metropolitan's residence, churches, service buildings and princely quarters all into one grand architectural ensemble of striking dimension and originality...