Word: altare
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...partially crippled Hatoyama hobbled painfully up to a white pine altar at the entrance to the shrine, closed his eyes, bowed his head and paid silent attention to the sun goddess-and, in doing so, paid heed also to the votes of Japanese nationalists in the forthcoming general elections...
...wedding day, Doris leaves Gig at the altar with his ego and elopes with Frankie to a city hovel. There are the usual misunderstandings, more cruel blows from the Fates and an attempted suicide before the happy fadeout around the family piano...
...that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches her to have faith in herself. By the time he rides off to make a new pitch, she is well on her way-with another beau-to the altar...
...Rome, with massive solemnity, the canons of Santa Maria Maggiore took down from the altar the painting of Mary and Child known as Salus Populi Romani (Safety of the Roman people). Holding high the holy, red-brown painting, done on wood and attributed by Catholics to St. Luke, they marched through the streets of Rome, followed by a vast procession. On the steps of St. Peter's, the canons of the cathedral received the Salus Populi and placed the image on a dais in Michael-angelo's basilica. There, this week, in the presence of some 40 cardinals...
...McCarthy--the Senator--in spite of the Committee recommendations. But the assembled group of solons is considering McCarthy the man, and McCarthy has followed his expected form by abusing the fellow Senators who might have given him a lenient hearing. In doing so, he has flopped from his celestial altar. Although Senators are willing to believe the world has gone to hell, they will scarcely allow a colleague to insist they are a lynch party driving it there...