Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perched precariously atop the railing of the Larz Anderson Bridge or stretched out over blankets on the banks of the Charles, the spectators jockeyed for choice vantage points...
...Hinckley had written TIME several weeks earlier offering to answer any 20 questions the magazine posed. Thomas submitted the questions-on such subjects as Hinckley's childhood, his travels before the shooting and his friends-but Hinckley chose to address only his feelings about Foster. Atop the letter, Hinckley scrawled the title, The Lovesick Assassin...
...suspect, an 18-year-old Arlington man, has since (or so it is rumored) been whisked back to the Navy, from which he was AWOL, the debris atop the granite stadium has been cleared, and a brand new press box--one that will never burn down--is nearly ready to start off the 1981 season...
...occasional disillusioned reporter is not the only problem that Lord confronts in her spacious headquarters atop Holyoke Center. With her assistants, she must produce a weekly newspaper (the Gazette) and coordinate media coverage of events occurring throughout the University. In the morning she might be scrambling to get headlines for a professor proud of some scientific advancement, and in the afternoon be running interference for a scholar who claims his studies cannot be interrupted by chattering journalists. And then Lord might discover that it's Thursday, and her weekly column for the Boston Herald American is due. "I'm just...
...fooled. The scooped-out gimcrack is nothing more than a TV antenna. It is quite a bit more, however, than the rabbit-ears atop the family console...