Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-the magnificent Gothic St. Michael's Cathedral-was completed in 1433, and lasted until the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when 500 German planes bombed it in a raid that forever linked the city's name to the destructiveness of modern war. Only the outer walls, tower and spire of St. Michael's were left standing...
...Washington to meet with Republican leaders, Dwight Eisenhower complained that Democrats, who were quick to begin congressional investigations during his Administration, were showing "no enthusiasm, no drive and no sense of priority" in poking into the Estes case. Texas' Republican Senator John Tower said he had evidence that the Estes case "may make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday-school picnic." At that point Kennedy came to the defense of Freeman. The President, said Acting Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, has "the greatest confidence in Secretary Freeman, and that confidence remains unchanged...
...site selected for the two colleges was a large, angular plot, bounded on one side by the huge Gothic tower of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and on the other by the unbelievable part-medieval, part-Georgian Graduate School. The design which Saarinen eventually produced offended neither on the two and managed, in fact, to blend excellently with the Gothic...
...tower will enclose the world's most awesome bell chorus-a ten-bell peal and a 53-bell carillon. The carillon bells will range down the scale to a twelve-ton low E-flat bell. "The reason for bells in a church tower," says Dean Sayre, "is to mark for people events in their lives which portend the turning points"-in the case of the Washington Cathedral, "the inauguration of a President, word of war or peace." The Final Gargoyle. More than $12 million has been spent to bring the cathedral to its present grandeur. At today...
...Tower of Babel had nothing on the modern cocktail party, whose disparate clatter and chatter has long fascinated linguists, novelists, sociologists and sound engineers-as well as the imbibers. Unconsciously, every cocktail-partygoer performs an unusual feat as he sips his gin amid the din: while carrying on his own dazzling conversation, he is able simultaneously to monitor the surrounding babble for such important items as the sound of his own name or a verbal pass at a lady friend. How does the human organism perform these intellectual gymnastics? Fascinated by what they call "the cocktail-party problem," two British...