Word: looming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alsace is booming once again, its strategic location near major German population centers at last an advantage rather than a threat. Sleek high-rise apartments tower over half-timbered villages. Factory smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries...
...Massachusetts Democratic machine sought by yet another Kennedy-Senator Teddy. In any case, Larry had let it be known that he would definitely leave Washington when the present Congress adjourns. By putting him in the Cabinet instead, Johnson thus wrested from the Irish Mafia a man who might have loomed as large in Teddy's career as he had in Jack's-and plainly has plenty of loom in Lyndon's plans...
...reasonably successful and conscientious American family is left with any time for literature, it tends to read in winter what used to be regarded as summer fare. The holiday reading list increasingly represents an escape not from serious literature but toward it; vacations loom as the annual oasis where people can soak up the topical or timeless, talked-about or dreamed-about books...
...dropped out, Cykman's Star of Siam is now worth about $500,000. His plant works two shifts daily, weaving silks for his four Bangkok stores, three foreign branches and his busy export trade. Next Cykman intends to sell public shares to help finance a 100-loom weaving plant in northeast Thailand...
...typical militia outpost is Tanlong, some 20 miles southeast of Saigon. At night the capital's lights loom on the horizon, but none of the 14 men on duty can afford to look at them: the Viet Cong snipe constantly. The Tanlong outpost consists of six foxholes, all half-full of slimy water. A mortar pit, with its precious weapon covered carefully in canvas, stands near by, flanked by four ancient Vietnamese graves whose massive headstones provide the outpost's only cover...