Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most notable was the famed Star of India Sapphire, weighing 563.35 carats, the world's biggest stone of its kind (about the size of a golf ball), donated to the museum by old J. Pierpont Morgan himself. Also taken was the DeLong Star Ruby, 100.32 carats, the world's most perfect star ruby, and J. P. Morgan's Midnight Sapphire, weighing 116.75 carats. Museum officials put the value of the 22 stones at more than $300,000, but the fact was that the three big pieces alone were priceless...
...nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
...impact of Goldwaterism in this state was just about nil. With some other Republican, Johnson, while still winning by a big margin, would probably have run somewhat behind Kennedy and Bellotti would have sunk like a stone under a tidal wave of Volpe votes, since few Republicans would have had reason to split their tickets. There was no Ken Keating in Massachusetts. Even somebody as unknown and as vulnerable to a Democratic landslide as Elywnn Miller, the Republican aspirant for Auditor, held on to the usual number of GOP votes as he lost in the usual fashion. Lloyd Waring...
Walt's attempt to stone for that showing should provide the main interest for Crimson fans today. Army's Warner has been billed as his chief competition for first place with the three Navy men and Brown's Vic Boog the other possibilities...
...Brittany farmland had been bombed, strafed and shelled all day. Its rough-stone houses were now rubble, its fields aflame and littered with dead cattle. Looking down on this devastation, General George Smith Patton Jr. suddenly raised his arms to the sky. "Compared to war," he cried, "all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love...