Word: terminus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long last, here again is Washington's Union Station. Last week, after a thoughtfully conceived and meticulously executed $160 million restoration, the great national depot -- the bustling terminus for hundreds of thousands of troops sent off to two world wars, the Capitol Hill transit point for eleven Presidents and 11 zillion federal hangers-on -- reopened in something like its original form for the first time in more than a decade. It may be the most breathtaking public interior in the U.S. The vast, spiffed-up old station, packed with 140 new shops and restaurants and movie theaters (replacing, among other...
...stood here, and after the ravages of the Paris Commune of 1871, its melancholy, fire-gutted ruins remained untouched for nearly 30 years. Then, in 1898, the Orleans railroad company bought the site and raised on it a railroad station with a built-in hotel, serving as the terminus of lines from southwestern France. Its architect, Victor Laloux (1850-1937), did not approach the genius of men like Charles Garnier, who created the Paris Opera, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, France's supreme engineer. But he gave the Gare d'Orsay all he had, and that, backed by the decorative...
...glacier is a river of ice fed by mountaintop snowfall. When the ice becomes thick and heavy enough, it starts to flow like an extremely viscous fluid, its uphill section always advancing, its end, or terminus, moving forward or back, depending on factors like how fast the terminus melts or breaks off into the sea. Although glaciologists can describe a glacier's movements and predict its effects, they cannot explain why the Hubbard Glacier or any of the 15 or so smaller frozen masses that are also surging in the Yakutat area -- albeit harmlessly -- began to speed up, while others...
Japan is the terminus for a floating pipeline, a long convoy of supertankers that stretches 6,500 miles from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Malacca, into the South China Sea and finally to Japanese ports. From those tankers and others pour 99.8% of the country's oil and 70% of its total energy needs. Japan also imports 90.7% of its natural gas and 81.8% of its coal. The whole edifice of Japanese prosperity is built on those foreign energy sources...
...That's the western terminus of U.S. Route 16, isn't it?" Barone said...