Word: spire
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Expectant and exulting, all Britain waited for the crowning to begin. This was pleasure anticipated and known. But 4,000 miles away, in the silence of the Himalayas, a little band of Britons fought time and the uncertain elements to conquer for their Queen earth's highest spire...
...with Legionnaires, JL jeeps, artillery, barbed wire, ammunition, slips smoothly into the grass airstrip. We step out and the hills and mountains enclose us in their green embrace. To the west, rising from the jungle, is a hill surmounted by a white, bell-shaped stupa (shrine) whose glistening, golden spire points needlelike at a soft blue sky. To the east and south tower the forest-clad mountains Phu Xan Noi and Phu Xan Luan, looking like huge elephants...
...editors of the Harvard daily newspaper have voted to present a large ornamental bird to Ambassador Vishinsky for use on the spire of Moscow University...
...more than to rebuild the old church, yet would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have a flattish, gently undulating roof, and a square, 197-foot tower topped with a slim cross. Inside, Architect Gsaenger plans to erect movable steel and glass partitions, separating the church proper from an adjoining community center seating...
...Poonsters have turned a deaf ear to pleas that the Ibis be allowed to grace a spire on the University of Moscow. Several hundred Radcliffe and College students yesterday signed petitions demanding that the bird remain with the Russians, "to whom it now belongs by right of courtesy...