Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular Sunday, as on almost every other day of the week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys...
...name showed no signs of life, save the rescue crews. Of the hamlet's almost 1,200 residents, only four, including a woman and her child, are believed to have survived. Five miles away in Su- Bum, army troops found a scrawny chicken dancing a macabre two-step atop a freshly dug family grave. "All the people, the goats, the pigs and the cows died," said Lieut. General Tataw. "What surprises me is how that chicken survived...
...speeches reflected the direction they wanted the University to go in. Lowell looked to the continuity of history and the succession of generations to reassure a world in crisis that out of darkness had always come light and out of chaos order, so long as higher education remained atop its pedestal in society...
Since 1981 Stephenson himself has been a hurricane of activity. From high atop his seventh floor Holyoke Center office, Stephenson has juggled every detail of the three-day extravaganza...
Perhaps the most remarkable announcement was that of the German professor, Friedrich Bergius, who claimed to have developed a means for converting sawdust into food. Across two columns atop its front page on September 12, 1936, The Times reported the following...