Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat into a hotbed of vituperative energy and activity which would emanate from its fourth-floor generator like a pulsing and life-giving sign. Harry, whose massive and hoopla'ed cherry bomb got somewhere defused, who never knew why the big cracker...
...iron and taconite, the iron pellets sifted magnetically from huge loads of earth. Below the Canadian border stretch vast expanses of forests and lakes, a region of shaggy and pristine beauty. Timber wolves roam there. Moose can be seen feeding in the clearings. Sometimes a bald eagle is spotted atop an enormous pine...
...space agency is about to double the challenge. This Saturday morning, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn 1B rocket for the start of a bold new mission aboard the $293 million space station-a record-breaking flight of 59 days that will be the most rigorous test yet of man's ability to withstand the physical and psychological strains of prolonged space travel...
...friends could pull most strings. It took them two years to turn the tide of public opinion against Cook and in their favor. Cook fought back, but he was his own worst enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...
...James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Eastland, a professional racist, has from his post atop the Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee opposed even the mildest measures for racial justice. He doubles as a gentleman farmer: his huge Mississippi plantations receive the Agriculture Department's highest annual acreage payments...