Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modern Tower of Babel...
...ridiculous Government expenses of this year, I can find none as ridiculous as the appropriation for space spending [Jan. 26]. We might remember what happened to the Tower of Babel when man's first attempt at conquering space was thwarted. [Genesis 11:4-9: "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ... So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth."I Can't we take God's hint, and leave his domain alone...
...Texas," Democratic Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez said last night, "there is a myth that the spirit represented by General Walker and John Tower is rampant. Texas really has an ingrained liberal tradition...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...
...proposed merger would come a massive rail network with 20,372 miles of track crisscrossing the big industrial areas from Boston to St. Louis. With assets of $4.2 billion and combined annual revenue of $1.5 billion or more, the new Penn Central line would tower far above any other U.S. railroad and with its subsidiaries would rank as the 13th largest corporation in the country...