Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving us openings." observed Massachusetts' Ralph Bonnell. Texas Senator John Tower said that Kennedy's "power grab'' will "serve as a rallying point for Republicans all across the ideological spectrum." Said Michigan's John B. Martin: "A lot of people are getting the feeling that the President is throwing his weight around. He's doing this damage to himself, and it could turn out to be our strongest asset." Kennedy's action in the steel crisis, he said, was "more characteristic of Louis XIV than of the President of the U.S." National Committee...
...pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...
...Martello Tower at Sandycove on the Irish Sea, Dublin at last paid formal homage to the genius of a man who had long outraged and puzzled it-James Joyce. At the start of a week-long tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site...
Then, suddenly, the idyll collapsed. The tower walls turned out to be not ivory but papier-maché, and in the winds of controversy they all came tumbling down. By spring, 1962, the Radcliffe girl found herself exposed to public view on a not-entirely-comfortable plateau. The slick-paper magazines had discovered in her a whole new target for cliches. "Beauties with brains!" bellowed Time in surprise (or was it indignation?), but ran a group of pictures which seemed to disprove the contention. Writing in Holiday, a former 'Cliffie reminisced lyrically and tastelessly over the pleasures of the past...
...says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody sector of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's capital...