Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile visibility. A steady, eight-mile flow of chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
Visitors to the 870-year-old Tower of London used to be fascinated by three pairs of ravens that strutted around Tower Green, where so many heads have rolled. A legend, probably the work of one of the Tower guides, has it that the ravens fed off the headsman's victims. More probably they were first attracted by the garbage dumped out of Tower windows until sanitation set in during the 19th Century. When the Tower was opened as a show place, the ravens' wings were clipped, and they also became an exhibit...
Last month gloom deepened; Mabel disappeared. Gripp was grief-stricken. Then he too disappeared. In inner Tower circles it is suspected that Mabel's kidnapper kidnaped Gripp to keep her company. All over Britain farmers offered replacements...
Last week a new pair of ravens, Cora & Corax, the gift of a Welsh farmer, arrived at the Tower. With their wings clipped and their feathers preened, they will make their public debut this week...
With agreement on this basic principle, it was not impossible to work out a program. We did not shy away from an attempt to define the students interest in the world outside the ivory tower. In fact, resolutions which we adopted were quite prominent in Prague, whole sections being incorporated into the final report of the Congress...