Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...splendor of his idea lit my imagination, and I finished his sentence. "An ex-President of their own to run! If they played dirty and used the safe, inglorious past, we'd throw the past right back at them...
Worst hit were the chic canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains to the north and east of downtown Los Angeles. The hills are home to some of the area's wealthiest and most famous people, who live in semi-rural splendor in houses on the canyon bottoms, surrounded by oak trees and chaparral, or in hillside houses perched on stilts. Since fires-another scourge of the well-to-do Angelenos-have destroyed much of the vegetation in past years, the earth was quickly saturated by the rains. It turned into avalanches of mud that swept down the hillsides...
Sound the war cries, round up our youth, oil the tanks, light up the sky with the awesome splendor of nuclear weaponry! We're off to war! Damn...
Opening ceremonies, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2:30-4:30 p.m.: For lovers of panoply, the parade of athletes from 37 nations and the lighting of the Olympic flame are traditions that never lose their splendor...
There remain in Olympic competition a tradition and splendor worth preserving. The Olympics allow the world to see its best athletes in a special...