Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leaning Tower. Gronchi's visit to the U.S., like Gronchi's conception of the presidency of Italy, was something much more than an exercise in ceremonial. In company with Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, he twice reviewed current Italian and international problems with Eisenhower and his staff, as the State Department put it, "on a high plane." Gronchi assured his U.S. hosts that he warmly supported the Western alliance, that he deeply detested Communism, that his widely reported policy of "the opening to the left" connoted not neutralism but social reform...
...school of engineering, Sporn went to work for AGE in 1920, served as the company's chief engineer for 14 years before he became president in 1947. A music and art lover with an engineer's eye for form (he patterned AGE's transmission towers after the Eiffel Tower), Sporn likes to punctuate his conversation with frequent calculations on a slide rule, deals only in precise figures. He has doubled the company's capacity since 1949, hiked operating revenues an average of $15 million a year to $258 million in 1955. He also shaved the price...
Each of the three speakers discussed his profession and cautioned dabblers that success in the theatre requires constant sacrifice. The College graduate, Anderson said, must "shake the ivory tower from his being...
Later investigation thoroughly refuted these charges. De Vaux and Harding first thought the Qumran ruins were simply an insignificant Roman fortress. Further digging disclosed, however, remains of a "monastery", complete with a fifteen-foot tower which was still standing. Its walls were forty feet square and five feet thick. The rest of the building consisted of courts, passages, a scriptorium, and many other rooms. Coins found definitely dated the building, and pottery linked the building with the caves. This provided final proof of the Scrolls' authenticity...
Gourmets to the last, the newspapers of Paris printed up special menus "pour le grand froid." Their recommendation: plenty of red meat and fresh vegetables. Movie houses and theaters canceled their shows. The hydraulic elevators at the Eiffel Tower refused to work, and even the doughty and haughty clochards (the hobos of Paris) sought shelter in the stations of their ancient enemies, the police...