Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through Tuesday night, the Vietnamese crowd grew uglier; hundreds tried to scale the ten-foot wall, despite the barbed wire strung atop it. Marines had to use tear gas and rifle butts to hold back the surging mob. Some screamed, some pleaded to be taken along. Floor by floor, the Marines withdrew toward the roof of the embassy with looters right behind them. Abandoned offices were transformed into junkyards of smashed typewriters and ransacked file cabinets. Even the bronze plaque with the names of the five American servicemen who died in the embassy during the 1968 Tet offensive was torn...
...assembly point faced the statue of Viet Nam's 6th century naval hero, Trang Hung Dao. A landing zone had been prepared atop the building. But the South Vietnamese navy had placed 50-cal. machine guns on top of the building next door, posing a threat to the departing Americans. Picking up our gear, we trooped on to another assembly point...
...Stallion was still 200 ft. away, its loading ramp down and its rotors slashing impatiently. Fifty people, some lugging heavy equipment despite the order to abandon all baggage, piled in, one atop another: correspondents, photographers and Vietnamese men, women and children. The loadmaster raised the ramp, the two waist gunners gripped the handles of their M16s, and, with about a dozen passengers still standing like subway straphangers, the helicopter lifted off. As the tail dipped, I could see towers of smoke rising from all over Tan Son Nhut...
...They had stunt men standing by," explained former light heavyweight Boxing Champ Archie Moore, "but if the star was going to fight personally, then I was going to do the same." Moore, 61, probably regretted his decision during four hours atop a moving railroad car with stone-faced Actor Charles Branson. The fight scene, shot in a snowstorm in the Idaho Rockies, was filmed for Breakheart Pass, a western based on a novel by Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back...
...series of premonitory events, John D. Rockefeller gave presents of expensive bicycles to close associates, and lady cyclists abandoned their acres of crinoline for "rational clothing." H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw could be seen atop their new machines, and Scientific American soberly announced that "as a social revolutionizer [the bike] has never had an equal. It has put the human race on wheels, and has thus changed many of the most ordinary processes and methods of social life...