Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...December of her senior year of high school, Heiberger took Saenz to the top of the Sears Tower. Bending down on one knee in front of his 17 year-old girlfriend, he asked, “Would you make me the happiest man in the world and be my wife?” Saenz remembers that she was initially shocked and covered her mouth with her hands. “What can I say?” she blurted out. Her nervous suitor responded, “Well, you have to say something...
...Duck, the Rushin Hacker,” claimed authorship for the mysterious message, which apparently referenced the bells housed in Lowell tower that originally belonged to the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow...
Gail Climaco is in for a dazzling surprise this Valentine's Day. Her boyfriend Michael Chehi, a technical-marketing engineer from Germantown, Md., plans to fly her to Paris, take her to the top of the Eiffel Tower and slip a diamond engagement ring on her finger. "Gail is the most understanding and open person I know," says Chehi, 33, "and I want her to know that she changed my life...
...chic Palestinian woman in dark glasses strides toward an Israeli checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem. Armed soldiers shout at her to stop, but she quickens her pace. Then she removes her glasses. Her gaze mesmerizes the guards. As she passes, they wilt in submission--and the tower collapses...
...tallest of the towers would be a spire that climbs 1,776 ft. (The Fourth of July altitude is no accident; and, yes, the building would be the world's tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant...