Word: towered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griselda, the witch who lives in the Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...
...chiller about a young governess in an English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair of phantoms. The opera's 16 scenes flashed quickly across the stage., building awareness of horror as the red-haired Quint appeared in the tower, the green-face Miss Jessel was seen by the lake, and the ghosts chanted diabolically to the children at night...
...there has never been a rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three of them are belaying their way toward the summit, along with a tepid villain whom Rudi also rescues, for good measure. By the author of The White Tower and aimed at the schoolboy trade, this is a slick, readable fictionalized account of the 1865 conquest of the Matterhorn: half as high as Mt. Everest, and nearly half as interesting...
...Baltimore's Tower Club, for tall men (6 ft. 2 in. or more) and women (5 ft. 10 in. and up), donated two beds, 7 ft. 7 in. long, to Union Memorial Hospital. The club's organizer. Jerry Geller, had suffered from having his 7 ft. 2 in. frame folded into a standard...
...speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time...