Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last February the young officers of Egypt's revolution hailed Zouzou into court on charges of corruption, and she was stripped of all she had amassed save a stone palace in Cairo's lovely Garden City, a black Cadillac-and Safsaf. Zouzou was put under house arrest with Safsaf, who is now 77. For pleasure-loving Zouzou, jail might have been better...
...Artagnan! Where the hell is D'Artagnan?" bawled stocky Joseph Lerner in a Roman courtyard last week. D'Artagnan, played by Hollywood's Jeffrey Stone, popped up from among the chaos of generators, cameras, props, actors and Italian technicians crowded before the venerable Palazzo Taverna, and Lerner was able to get on with the shooting of his filmed TV series, The Three Musketeers...
...again by Hitler's blitzes in 1941. This year workmen began digging into the ruins of the chapel, located in the Cheapside section of London, preparatory to rebuilding it again. As they worked their way into the soft earth around the vaults, their shovels clinked against a buried stone object...
...rays were no help. By week's end the Dancer's troubles were still a mystery. Until luck outran him last week, the Dancer had never looked better. Last year's stone bruises were healed; the big, bony ankles were strong enough to satisfy both the veterinarians and the two-dollar bettors. Now even the Dancer's next start was doubtful. As for Vanderbilt's hope of entering him in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at England's Ascot, the odds were clearly against...
Round the Earth. He followed the ship's outline up the dim chamber. The hull, a shipshaped cavity carved out of the bedrock, appeared to be about 125 ft. long and 17 ft. wide. Its six wooden decks were somewhat shrunken away from the stone, and so. El Malakh could see down and count them. The wood seemed in fine condition, as if the painters had just finished their job. There were no cobwebs, which is a sign that the chamber's gypsum seal had never been broken. If the industrious graverobbers of ancient Egypt had really missed...