Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the tower of desire topples over at last, Kozol realizes you can't be a Harvardman and pretend you're not: "Thinking you could escape a system, and then finding out it had hold of you all along, and feeling it pull you back." Love probably implied forgiveness, and Kozol's Harvardman, who has a profitable insurance office in his future, cannot bring himself to forgive...
Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...
...essence, their arguments are: 1) God directed that Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, should found three different races; 2) God gave the races separate languages at the building of the tower of Babel to ensure their staying apart...
...privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass-and-aluminum tower buildings and several score one-and two-story buildings nestled among the trees...
...with Poet Paul Verlaine. During the next 18 years, until his death in 1891, he left only traces of wanderings that took him to Stuttgart as a teacher, to Java with the Dutch army, to Abyssinia as a trader, gunrunner and, probably, slaver. Now James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower) has come down from the mountains long enough to try to fill in the gaps. In his fictionalized biography, Rimbaud becomes Claude Morel; Charleville, his home town in the Ardennes, becomes Cambon; and Verlaine becomes Maurice Druard...