Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biting was the cold in Moscow's Red Square that the crack battalions of troops standing at attention seemed to sway slightly as soldiers moved from one leg to the other trying to keep warm. Looking down from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, members of the Politburo of the Communist Party tugged at the earflaps of their thick fur hats and pulled their coat collars tight. They had braved -7 degrees F weather last week to pay tribute to the late Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and to witness the sealing of his ashes in a burial niche in the Kremlin wall...
...gave a new measure of respect to the ECAC, as the Eagles, atop newfangled super league Hockey East, failed to hand a representative of the older circuit a sound defeat...
...Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop the ramp. He could be heard screaming as the hijackers coldly took aim and fired six shots into him. His body was also thrown onto the runway. U.S. officials denied that the American envoy to Karachi was on the plane and established later that the victim was William Stanford...
...koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird perched atop the Q? What kind of fish are swimming in the water trapped by the upper part of the X? What is that spotted amphibian sliding down the N? Answers: a quetzal; an X-ray fish; a newt...
...crusader has been at her agitating best in the past few weeks. As cameras rolled, the pixieish, 5-ft. 3-in., 110-lb. lawyer perched atop two volumes of the California Annotated Code stacked on her office chair and exulted over a state court ruling striking down a mobile-home park's adults-only policy. Next day Allred vowed to continue pressing a suit for $21 million against the city's Roman Catholic archdiocese on behalf of a woman who claims that she was sexually abused by seven priests, even in the confessional of a church, and that...