Word: atop
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...interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team piled phrases and phonations from local newspapers, diaries, letters, the Federal Writers' Project state guide series and such other reference works as the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It also scoured more than 500 books of regional literature, including William Faulkner's The Reivers, which contributed...
Twenty-seven years of Harvard Square history came to an end last Friday when Hurricane Gloria knocked the Harvard Coop's large red neon sign from its resting place atop the Coop and Harvard Trust overhang...
Employees at Out of Town News, just across the street from the Coop, said they didn't know the sign had come down. Some even claimed they had never seen any sign atop the home of the 103-year-old institution...
...captured Radio Thailand and at least one government television station. At 7:30 a.m. Bangkok residents heard an announcement on their radios that the "revolutionary party" had seized power. Nonetheless, the atmosphere in the capital was carnival-like. Soft- drink vendors hawked their wares as rebel soldiers slouched atop U.S.-made M- 41 tanks, idly awaiting victory. "This is easy," bragged one air force captain at rebel headquarters. "No fighting. No blood...
...major oil corporation: "You'd have trouble convincing my company to put money into a project like this." They may regret doubting Thomas: six test bores 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. deep have been drilled into the Siljan area, and though Sweden is not thought to sit atop typical petroleum sediments, all six have shown traces of hydrocarbons...