Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone who has ever been atop Mt. Adams in New Hampshire's Presidential Range knows that there is something about the mountain that regular worshippers and first-time climbers alike can feel as they near the summit of the 5798 ft. peak...
...Starring Fred Astaire (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Making his theatrical debut as Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin' off his top hat, dancin' in his tails...
...Thailand served as a giant aircraft carrier for the United States military, providing six bases where American bombers refueled before once again bombing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Thailand was ruled by a rightist military dictatorship--headed by Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn--that used American aid to bulwark their own positions atop Thai society...
...beginning of the football season most polls tabbed Cornell as the team to beat in the Ivies. Likewise, Harvard was picked as the team to be kicked around in the league. Yet after three weeks of league play Penn sits atop the standings with a 3-0 record while Cornell is 1-2. Harvard is tied for second with Dartmouth and Yale...
Excavating steadily for the past five summers in Koster's cornfield, which is 45 miles north of St. Louis, Struever's team has dug up the remnants of at least 15 separate prehistoric settlements. Stacked atop each other in easily distinguishable layers-or horizons, as archaeologists call them-the individual settlements were in remarkably good condition. They had been so well preserved by covers of protective dust, which blew down from nearby bluffs after they were abandoned, that they can be "read" by archaeologists like pages of a history book. The oldest layer dates back some...