Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper his patriotism, Texas' John Tower his warmth, good humor, good counsel and advice...
...prestige of the Senate is at stake.'' Thirty-four Republicans ended up voting for cloture. Only two-Texas' John Tower and Arizona's Barry Goldwater-voted against. And Goldwater, waiting in the Republican cloakroom, did not appear to naysay until Dirksen sent him word that his vote would make no difference...
...Canaveral, once an Air Force principality, NASA has begun to look and act like the majority stockholder. The gantries and pads of the military "Missile Row" are busier than ever, but they are dwarfed by the 310-ft. gantry and 240-ft. umbilical tower of the Saturn C-1 site, which boasts the most elaborate blockhouse in the space business. A second gantry and tower are rising fast, and farther north NASA is buying thousands of acres of beachland, swamp and orange groves for the stupendous equipment needed to launch the great C-5 moon rockets. These intricate monsters...
...racks, each supported on eight crawler treads 12 ft. high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
...Song II is from A. E. Housman's When the Bells Justle: When the bells justle in the tower The hollow night amid Then on my tongue the taste is sour Of all I ever...