Word: spired
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...
...Hungarian Parliament in 1939 as a member of the liberal Smallholders Party, Father Varga, immune by reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after 14 days in prison...