Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California's Santa Susana hills. In big cities, he suggests, churches might emulate restaurants and cocktail lounges by having chapels on the tops of skyscrapers. The churches could reap economic benefits by renting their valuable ground space, but is Manhattan ready for a Noah's Rainbow Room atop the RCA Building? Is San Francisco ready for a Top of the St. Mark...
...urging motorists only to shield their lights, but peasants throw stones at any car that keeps them on. In this uneasy atmosphere, Pakistani antiaircraft gunners opened up on their own high-flying Sabre jets one evening last week. At one point, the military stationed an antiaircraft ma chine gun atop the Rawalpindi Inter continental Hotel, but guests convinced them it was dangerous...
...continued his work with illiterates in Chile for 4 more years before there too the government felt that the people he was working with were moving too far and too fast and it "requested" that he leave. The Center for the Study of Development of Social Change, offices atop the Harvard Square Theater, had become interested in his work and invited him to Harvard. While here during the 1968-69 school year he taught at the Ed School and was prodded to write down the framework and ideas that had guided his work. The result was Pedagogy of the Oppressed...
...with his wife and four sons, rode the tide atop a patch of straw that had been the roof of their house. In the end, the man was alone. "They all lost their grip and floated away," he said, "my wife and sons, the big and the small ones." Said another victim: "That night it seemed as though the whole town was crying...
...John' rested." The story, widely applauded at the time, subsequently won one of the more coveted prizes given for business journalism. Last week Church accepted none other than a John Hancock Award, worth $1,500 and a dais seat at a banquet. The dinner was given-where else? -atop the skyscraper whose caissons, happily, have been repaired...