Word: towered
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...airport (roughly the size of Manhattan). The L-1011 bounced off the turf and came down again a quarter-mile away, grazing one car on busy State Highway 114 and demolishing a second car, whose driver was decapitated. The plane skipped across a grassy field, ricocheted off a water tower, then burst into flames as it slid across the tarmac. "It was like a wall of napalm," said Airline Mechanic Jerry Maximoff. The tail section, with one of the plane's three engines and the last ten rows of seats, was the only recognizable part of the wreckage...
...days ago, Noam Chomsky spoke to one of my classes. For those who don’t know him, Noam Chomsky is to foreign policy what Howard Zinn is to U.S. history: an anti-establishment academic who enjoys widespread popularity outside of the Ivory Tower. Chomsky makes some valid criticisms of American policy, but his speech illustrated what is wrong with a certain strand of campus radicalism. In his speech, Chomsky claimed the majority of Americans are to the left of both political parties, the media, and academia. Their preferences are not reflected in public policy decisions because America...
...hours later, another patrol, headed by Lieut. William Robertson, reached the town of Torgau, on the Elbe, and came under heavy fire from across the river. Robertson broke into a pharmacy, liberated a bed sheet, some ink and Mercurochrome, and painted a crude U.S. flag. He climbed the tower of the town castle and hung his flag from the parapet. "Tovarish!" he shouted. "Amerikansky...
...broadcasting world increasingly seems like a tower of babble. News inter viewers pose tough questions for high Administration officials; ex-game show hosts lob softballs at starlets plugging their latest movies; snarling radio talk-meisters shout angry opinions on everything from Ronald Reagan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Amid this flood of verbiage, King provides a refreshing strain of intelligent, graceful conversation. For 71/2 years, that conversation has been largely confined to the middle of the night, on the Mutual Radio Network's Larry King Show. Now King has ventured into prime-time TV as host of a nightly talk show...
...structure is what is now called the Atomic Bomb Dome, originally Hiroshima Prefecture's Industrial Promotion Hall, a sort of chamber of commerce building and exhibition hall in 1945. The remains stand just outside the point of the park, across the Aioi Bridge. This shell is Hiroshima's Eiffel Tower, its Statue of Liberty. Where the dome rose, only the supporting beams remain, a giant hairnet capping four floors of vacant gray walls, much of their outer skin peeled away, exposing patches of brick. The interior floors are also gone, making the entire structure an accidental atrium. A front doorway...