Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That day the column moved about three miles. From atop an armored personnel carrier, the landscape looked like the Oklahoma Panhandle-thigh-high dry yellow banana grass, and clumps of scraggly trees on either side of the road. It was an ideal terrain for U.S. aerial domination-or so it seemed...
...store's business still permitted Goodman and his Spanish-born wife Nena to lavishly entertain special customers, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Barbra Streisand, in their 14-room penthouse atop the store. But recently profits have sagged; in 1970 Bergdorf earned well under 4% on sales of $32 million. Convinced that only a bigger company could borrow enough capital to expand the business beyond New York's midtown area, Goodman began searching for somebody to buy him out. Unless a buyer could be found, he said sadly, the store would probably close, and its valuable...
...March 13), no member of the cast has a more appropriate background for the movie. Of mostly Sicilian descent, he was raised in the South Bronx, a place that is less a neighborhood than a survival test. He was a solitary boy who used to hide out for hours atop an advertising billboard and who lived in fantasies spawned by the movies his mother took him to see. (His father, a mason, had left home when Al was two.) He entertained the other neighborhood kids by spinning stories. "I would tell them I was from Texas," he recalls...
Having forced oil companies to swallow two major price increases over the past year, the eleven nations that sit atop the world's rich pools of oil are now demanding a piece of the companies themselves. Their goal is "participation,", which is merely another way of describing partial, and probably increasing nationalization of the U.S. and European firms that drill in their territory. At a meeting in Beirut of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which ended last week, the largest consortium of oil companies, the Arabian American Oil Co., bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle...
SENATOR VANCE HARTKE loves the people of New Hampshire." This declaration flew above the banner of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader every day of the week before the New Hampshire primary election. High atop the front page of New Hampshire's only daily paper Hartke the Hoosier was whispering sweet nothings to the White Mountain State voters...