Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restricted for its literary form. It is apolitical, and, ironically, a political shillelagh inveighed by both sides in the Cold War. It alternates between axes of profound beauty and profound confusion. It is not quite Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, but its intellectual vitality and respect for human dignity make it tower above anything else around these days...
...Tower up like silver pencils, score on score...
...were still an aristocratic church, it would never have elected me." The "P.B." also told reporters that he hoped the Red Sox (he lived near Boston for a time) would win the American League pennant: "In St. Louis, when the Cardinals won, they rang the bells in the church tower. There is a connection there, you know." For other pronouncements by Bishop Lichtenberger, see RELIGION, New Presiding Bishop...
...wall of water, with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...
Since 1956, the pressure of mounting production costs inexorably drew Jack Knight and Marshall Field together. Knight, with the News's obsolescent mechanical plant, could not hope to compete with the Trib, which will eventually print both the American and the Trib on Tribune Tower presses. Field's spanking new $21 million Sun-Times Chicago River building is starved for work: the Sun-Times's 534,000 press run keeps its $5,000,000 worth of new presses busy only...