Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem, shrine of three faiths, has been divided and harassed by military occupation ever since the Arab-Jewish war in Palestine ended over a year ago. Between the Arab-held Old City and the Israeli-held New City, lies a narrow no man's land cluttered with shell-torn ruins. Only the foolhardy would cross the narrow strip without special permission from both sides...
...village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled shrine...
...roomy, rococo City Center theater (converted from an old Shrine auditorium), the curtain went up on Marc Chagall's Firebird sets, and the audience gasped with pleasure. The brilliant red-and-blue sets, commissioned four years ago by Impresario Sol Hurok for Ballet Theatre, had been picked up by low-budget City Center at cut-rate. But the sets, gay though they were, were the oldest feathers on the new Firebird...
Howie Houston football team, will play in the East-West Shrine game on January 2 in San Franclaco, William Coffman, managing director of the game, announced yesterday. Houston was named to the East squad as a guard...
...tomb of Ulysses S. Grant on Manhattan's Riverside Drive was closely guarded over the weekend by damyankee police who had heard that North Carolina rebels, in New York for the Notre Dame game, were planning to hoist the Confederate flag over the shrine...