Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about $3 a gallon, and Spiegel nearly turned into a pillar of salt when he learned that truck drivers were stopping en route to take showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests." The law of the desert says that water must be shared, and that...
...Jackets-or Else. Like every big dealer, Chicago's Jim Moran knows that the best way to build up a solid list of customers is to become a pillar of the community-and a solid pillar he is. "If a dealer isn't interested in his community," says Moran, "then he's a poor businessman. I think that any place I go, I am an ambassador of Courtesy Motors." Moran belongs to many charitable, civic and religious groups, is a prominent Roman Catholic layman. He coaches a Little League team that last season won a district championship...
...PAUL PILLAR Livonia, Mich...
...Engines, fuselage, cargo, bodies cascaded with thundering crunches onto the street; rivulets of jet fuel skittered and splashed crazily and ignited into billows of flame, which in turn touched off the gasoline tanks of parked cars. Panicky tenants fled from a row of burning brownstone rooming houses. The empty Pillar of Fire Church (evangelical) turned into an inferno. Two men selling Christmas trees on a corner, a snow shoveler near by, and eight other Brooklynites were killed instantly...
...roaring youth, the Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...