Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from his office in the family candy firm, when he was appalled by a survey that showed widespread functional illiteracy below the levels of the Chattanooga society in which he lived. He and his friends organized their own training program, and Brock started coming down from his plush home atop Lookout Mountain to teach reading and writing to impoverished blacks...
Marinato's performance keeps him atop the nation's leading rushers with 12 touchdowns and 937 yards in six games...
...standard AM broadcast waves)-quickly lose their strength because of moisture in the atmosphere and cannot be sent over any appreciable distance. That problem may be alleviated in the future, says Bell Labs Radio Research Chief L.C. Tillotson, with such electronic relay devices as compact solid-state amplifiers perched atop utility poles and a new breed of communications satellite circling the earth at very close intervals...
From Algiers to Aden, Marrakech to Muscat, Nasser's death united Arabs in grief. Everywhere the plaintive cry went up: "Why do you leave us alone, Gamal?" From loudspeakers atop minarets in a thousand towns and cities wafted the reedy, lugubrious voices of muezzins chanting verses from the Koran...
...choreographed by a member of the company, Bill Evans, colorfully mixes orange and pink tights with electronic music. It's not quite as dynamic as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, but the harmony of modern dance and electronic music works as effectively. Evans creates many beautiful movements-girls suddenly atop the men's shoulders or a wave of the hand that stops abruptly in a right angle. Some patterns, though not innovative, are beautifully reminiscent of Martha Graham's company exercising in the film The Dancer's World...