Word: pylons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 50,000 Buddhist faithful had gathered for the sunrise service on the banks of the Saigon River. Packed shoulder to shoulder under a 120-ft.-high pylon put up with the help of army engineers, they were led in prayer by shaven-headed monks while a girls' choir sang hymns. Then down from a candle-laden altar was handed a glass case containing a small blackened object identified as the preserved heart of Thich Quang Duc, the first monk to burn himself alive during last year's Buddhist demonstrations...
...handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
...fields south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...
...last week as a work crew cut down the fine old elms and maples around the junior high school parking lot. It was not that they did not love trees. But an odd combination of trees plus bird droppings plus fungus spores plus children had given Milan (rhymes with pylon) a strange epidemic...
...morning a robot control, operated by perforated tape, was set in motion to trigger an explosion atop a 300-ft. latticed steel pylon in the North African desert. The eye-melting flash turned the sky into brighter-than-day, and a mountain range on the horizon was illuminated like a stage setting. As the shock wave rolled outward, two men in Hammoudia blockhouse ten miles away were thrown on their faces. With this nuclear bang, set off last week in the heart of the Sahara, France shouldered its way into the world Atomic Club, as Member...