Word: towered
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...unassuming Kolmeshöhe cemetery, German and American flags flutter from the tower that overlooks the quaint, newly restored town of Bitburg. The two flags symbolize the friendship that Bitburg's German residents and the 10,600 Americans connected with the U.S. air base there have come to associate with their haven in the Eifel hills near the Luxembourg border. Each year since the cemetery was consecrated in 1959, American and French military officials have joined Germans in a wreath-laying ceremony at Kolmeshöhe. This year Ronald Reagan intends to place a wreath there, and late last week, the cemetery...
Precise figures are hard to come by, but Tower Records, the nation's largest independent music retailer, reports that since September, classical-DVD sales have been running at least 12% ahead of the previous year's, whereas classical-CD sales in the same period have been more or less flat. With DVD players now in 70 million U.S. households and more and more people hooking up high-quality speakers or surround sound to their entertainment systems, the appeal of DVDs can only grow...
Sounds like Rachel Porter has no reason to worry about getting to spend another four years in this ivory tower-even if she does have to weather the brunt of her housemates’ messy Sunday mornings...
Mansfield offered another hypothesis for the bluish tint to the ivory tower...
...believe is that the as-yet unnamed culprits are guilty of the equivalent of petty theft or shoplifting. But did we react to this story in the same way we would have if we found out that a handful of our peers had been caught walking into Tower Records and swiping a recording of a Bartok piano? Probably...