Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
Gold Tipped. In London, ambitious thieves raided the Tower of London, traditional repository of Britain's crown jewels, found none (their whereabouts is still a Government secret), took the guards' supply of cigarets...
...simultaneously to save, face for Britain, and The Bomb for the U.S., by rewriting his resolution, whereupon Russia's Vishinsky accused him of welshing on his "gentleman's agreement" with Molotov. Assembly President Spaak (who happened to be the subcommittee chairman, and who has been an unpublicized tower of strength during the whole meeting) saved the day by separating the troop question from the armament question. The troop count was abandoned; the disarmament plan, thus disencumbered, was sent on to the plenary Assembly session...
Politically, NR's leaning is still frankly left-of-center. It makes no pretense of maintaining an ivory-tower impartiality in its presentation of a liberal's eye view of the world scene. But that this view represents no political party or line or combination of the two is affirmed by Wallace in his five-page introductory editorial. He rejects those "Dichards of the Right" who cannot conceive of jobs for all in our present society and those "Diehards of the Left (who) maintain that freedom must be sacrificed for the sake of jobs and peace." Instead, he, ergo...
Dung Pit. Grosz spent the first months of World War I as a bored infantryman. Hospitalized for "brain fever" and then discharged, Grosz made an ivory tower of his Berlin studio. "The walls, ceiling and furniture were . . . decorated with cigar bands, bits of broken mirror, and stars made of tinsel," he remembers...