Word: citadel
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...Manhattan's 26 Broadway, citadel of the old Standard Oil Trust until its dissolution in 1911, the directors of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. last week trooped into their paneled meeting room, eased into leather chairs beneath John D. Rockefeller's portrait and listened to a report of Socony-Vacuum's 1951 profits that would have amazed old John...
...propaganda in Hong Kong's movie studios, charged them with "political activities subversive to peace and order" and chucked them out of the colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review, semi-official organ of Hong Kong's financiers, editorially reflected the new boldness: "Formosa must remain [a citadel] until Peking can be made . . . less aggressive . . ." said the Review. "Chiang Kai-shek's prestige is recovering. He is now looked upon as an ally of considerable value...
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...book, Your Mind and Appearance (Citadel; $3), Dr. Apton defends his theory. Many children's personalities are warped, he argues, because they happen to be born with jug ears, and get teased about them. Often the nose is the worrisome feature-and it does not have to be as big as Cyrano de Bergerac's. The passion to possess a sort of U.S. standard nose, says Dr. Apton, brings him patients who want their broad, flat noses built up with a bit of ridge, others who want their ridges taken down a notch. Dr. Apton generally obliges...
...city, and there unearthed the tombs of the Mycenaean kings with their treasures of gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world. At last, at the age of 68, Schliemann committed the only anticlimax of his career-he died in Naples of a sudden infection...