Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans' Brennan's, no brunch is complete without grillades and grits-peppers pounded into a veal round, then cooked in a Creole gravy. The Rainbow Room, atop Manhattan's R.C.A. Building, has taken to serving hot Bloody Mary soup, which is both tasty and the most ingenious way yet of dispensing liquor before the legal 1 p.m. Sunday starting time...
Brown still rides, with the seeming invincibility of Mordor, atop the soccer world; but last weekend's games singled out Harvard as the Ivies' Frodo Baggins, possessing the only chance of halting the evil Brownies' march to their third straight Ivy title...
...fighting is "the Rock," a jagged, 750-ft. fang of granite that thrusts upward at the intersection of three river valleys and two enemy trails. During July's Operation Hastings, the Marines established a reconnaissance post atop the Rock, and a lone sniper fed by airdrops of C rations controlled the area. Now it is a Marine battalion command post, under almost steady siege. Across from the Rock rears the Razorback-a steep ridge whose sides are pocked with caves dug by the Japanese in World War II, but now occupied by North Vietnamese. Several hundred yards below...
...Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...