Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quadrangle for women is already under way. A ten-story tower and a hospital will be added to the Medical Center. Behind it, a $4,000,000 science center will go up, and down the way, a $1,250,000 law building. A graduate school of business and an expanded engineering program will bring more students and the faculty will be enlarged. "I want Vanderbilt to be a great American university, not just a fine Southern university," says Chancellor Harvie Branscomb...
...were unmoved. I underlined "of it all" because it's the tone of such phrases that makes me doubt that the poets are the ones who are in a "self-sealing vacuum." It may just be possible that TIME Magazine is living in a dream world. That ivory tower of yours is being engulfed by a "self-sealing vacuum," you'd better watch out. The poets may have to rescue...
First the State Department refused Katanga's President Moise Tshombe a U.S. visa. Then ex-Major General Edwin A. Walker, now a Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas, was disinvited at the demand of Republican Senators Barry Goldwater and John Tower. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd said he would not come if Walker could not. Columnist David Lawrence wrote that he "doesn't participate in rallies of this kind." Ex-President Herbert Hoover dedined to interrupt a fishing trip to Key Largo. Film Cowboy John Wayne stayed back at the ranch in Hollywood. Young Americans...
Bruce and Texan John Tower peroratedsternly, "Give me liberty or give me death!" But the live hero of the night was Barry Goldwater,† who got a five-minute standing ovation complete with waving banners (FOR THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM-GOLDWATER IN '64) and two rousing choruses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Cried Goldwater: "Conservatism is the wave of the future. It has come of age at a time of need. It has come to life after 30 years of apathy...
...Radar. On the morning of the Idlewild crash, former Pilot George A. Van Epps, the bureau's northeastern chief, with headquarters at Idlewild, got a phone call from the tower: "This is an alert...