Word: pylon
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...Paris irate customers heaved bricks through bakeshop windows. In the town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
...longer would they have to throttle back for their pass above the Will Rogers pylon. They could let down as fast as they wanted to - provided that they stayed above 5,000 ft. so that the shattering racket of a "sonic boom" would not un nerve spectators or jostle instruments...
...West) Spengler to regard his work as the last gasp of great Western painting, yet his experiments caused Andre (The Voices of Silence) Malraux to call him the first modern artist. Perhaps he was both; certainly his Lunch on the Grass (opposite) stands as a kind of pylon in painting history...
Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
Last week, 14 years after Kate Buckingham's death, ground was finally broken for a less conspicuous monument to be constructed in Lincoln Park. The new 130-ft.-sq. memorial should still attract plenty of attention. On top of three stone terraces a polished black granite pylon would rise 70 feet, dwarfing the 13-ft. statue of Hamilton (completed ten years ago) - not to mention the park's 12-ft. bronze Lincoln...