Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence, peace's little men watched the instantaneous, incredible mushroom, the dark spurts of universal power, the shimmering bright column of the stem, the wall of ship-engulfing water. In silence, they left the theater...
...black Rock, according to one legend, Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Over this Rock stood Solomon's Temple. The Wailing Wall, part of the mosque area, is all of the Jewish Temple that remains. On this rock the Emperor Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter; the Crusaders built a church...
...also the worst year for Jerusalem's Jews. A few Jews still chanted against the ancient grey-brown Wailing Wall: "Because of the Temple which is destroyed, because of the walls which are broken down, because of our greatness which is departed . . .we sit alone and weep...
...floor they found a friendly receptionist who took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...
Both bidders want to use the 2,815-mile system for natural gas transmission, are favored by Wall Street to win. But the Government will accept their proposals only as a last resort. It wants the lines used for petroleum products, will give first choice to buyers or lessors who promise to use it for them. One reason: Big Inch's daily throughput of 300,000 barrels of crude, Little Big Inch's 235,000 barrels of gasoline would be on tap for any national emergency...