Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual TV fare of movies and soccer was abruptly interrupted by the macabre image of six hooded Libyans with nooses around their necks, perched atop stools. As horrified Libyan viewers watched last week, executioners moved down the line of the doomed, kicking over the stools. The state-run TV also showed three soldiers as they were shot to death by firing squads...
...slob friend (Jim Belushi) in search when this dynamic duo are hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would like to be around the world and what they actually...
Because of the Crimson victory, Fish--who is working with the Harvard tennis team in Florida tied Harry L. Cowles for second place on the list of Harvard's winningest squash coaches. Jack Barnaby stands atop that list with 355 wins...
Dickie McEvoy remains atop the conference with a sterling 2.00 goals against average in league play...
...from university libraries, sometimes shows him at his most scabrous. In one passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings," he wrote. "Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead...