Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West German jet fighters, flying back to their West German base from NATO maneuvers in France, turned up over East German Communist territory, lost and low on fuel. It was a clear violation of East Germany's airspace, just the kind of incident to touch off trouble. The tower in West Berlin could only order the planes to land at nearby Tegel, the French airfield in Berlin, for if the pilots headed back west on nearly empty fuel tanks, they might be forced to make an emergency landing in German Communist territory...
...George Smathers, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Republicans: Colorado's Gordon Allott. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Maryland's John Marshall Butler, Hawaii's Hiram Fong, Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Texas' John Tower...
Seeking a Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...
Braque's finest works; both have musical instruments as their theme, but they also undertake to show the instruments' rhythms. Robert Delaunay's Eiffel Tower is cubism at its most liquid, as if it were a scene reflected in a pool of troubled water, A few feet away, Delaunay uses powerful swirls of clashing colors to prove that "color alone is both form and subject." Rousseau was never more endearing than in his Artillerymen, who are all stiffly lined up as in a regimental photograph. And Marc Chagall was never more touching and imaginative than...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this author has a Chaplinesque flair for comic mischief. In her latest novel, an aging 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...