Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basketball more than supports all other sports, Wyoming is a basketball college and this was its biggest year. To match the Indians' Boykoff, the Cowboys had 6 ft. 7 Milo Komenich, like Boykoff one of the season's leading scorers (401 points) and one of the few Eiffel-tower basketballers who can really play the game. The Cowboys also had a supporting cast all at least 6 ft. 3-with one exception. The exception, a little dynamo named Kenny Sailors, made it tough for St. John...
...clear was the afternoon that some of the crews, passing well to the south of Paris, had their first sight of the Eiffel Tower. But most of them were too busy for rubbernecking: all the way in from the Channel coast, despite a strong escort of Allied fighters, the bombers were bedeviled by clouds of Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt logs, based in great force in western France and manned by skillful pilots...
...group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered: "Regardez-moi ces assassins," and looked, as he seldom looked in the years of freedom, at the soaring crags of the Eiffel Tower, which the Nazis had threatened to tear down for the sake of its steel...
...various times the tower has supported a brass cannon for noonday salutes, wireless and television stations, an aerodynamics laboratory, a great Citroën sign, a mighty thermometer in electric lights. For years the tower's top contained the tiny apartment of its builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, pioneer steel-bridge engineer, who died...
...Gustave Eiffel once said: "My tower will stand a thousand years." But the structure contains some 8,000 tons of iron. Last week rumors spread that it would be dismantled to feed Adolf Hitler's war machine...