Word: spire
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...Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, whose delicate spire still stands, though the body of the church was wrecked by a direct...
...Junkers 88 slipped in under the clouds that hung over southern England and thundered over the town, flying so low that it appeared to be no higher than the church spire...
...Gray, tall, elegant, elegiac, looked out on a darkening London on the darkest day of his life and murmured the phrases that will live longer than his works. "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Like a thin spire of a phrase left standing from another epoch, the words ominously summed up the mood of the pre-War world...
...London Times, but he was unable to raise more than a tepid temperature for Britain's struggle. The Burmese are isolationists. Some Londoners, however, thought that Premier U Saw felt less isolationist after he had seen the husks of some of London's buildings. His own capital, spire-templed Rangoon, is only 700 miles from a Japanese plane base at Pnom-Penh, Indo-China...
...preferred tradition to comfort. Here & there stood the steel skeleton of a modern building, its girders fantastically warped and bulged by heat. Fleet Street, mecca of British journalism, was badly hit, and behind it stood the blackened hulk of the Associated Press building. St. Bride's white spire, Wren's "madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion of scores of clerks, journalists and professional men who kept a 24-hour vigil over it. Guarding every foot...