Word: tower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holder tower looms high above the thick mud that clogs the cordovans and white sneakers. "Named in honor of Christopher Holder," the plaque reads, "a member of the Society of Friends in America in the seventeenth century, devout, loyal to duty, patient in suffering." Gargoyles leer down at the spectacle over the cloister arcade and from a phonograph stuck out the second-floor window of four entry the voice of a rock-and-roll singer blares fortissimo...
Then follow the host of "middle clubs," subject to gradation among themselves no doubt, though here any explicit ranking would be less objective and not generally conceded: Campus, Cannon, Charter, Cloister, Court, Dial, Elm, Key and Seal, Quadrangle, Terrace, and Tower. Dial took this year's only Negro...
...speeches to various broadcasting-industry gatherings outside Washington. On these trips Doerfer traveled at Government expense, collecting $12 per diem allowances, although his hosts often paid his hotel bills. Most picked-over trip: a 1954 expedition during which Doerfer 1) took part in the dedication of a station KWTV tower in Oklahoma City, and 2) made a speech to a National Association of Broadcasters convention in Spokane. On this trip, as Schwartz & Co. reckoned it, Doerfer drew $296.91 in travel expenses from the Government, got a total of $1,080.87 in casn and paid tabs from KWTV and the N.A.B...
...bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello's Tower in Famagusta. Before the mobs were dispersed, seven were dead, more than 100 injured in the worst rioting Cyprus had yet seen...
...columns outside the glass facade, thus leaving on each floor an unobstructed span, 58 ft. across by 177 ft. long, for flexible office planning. The service core with its elevators, rest rooms and air conditioning, which clutter up the center of most office buildings, is installed in a separate tower...