Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the tower made of glass
...Tower of Babel, West...
...sitting alone in a perimeter observation tower in Viet Nam when I heard of the tragic and violent death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy [June 14]. How and why can death be so prevalent in an advanced civilization such as ours? At that moment, my attention became fixed on the M-60 machine gun which rested, black and suddenly very ugly, in front of me. I wondered when I would have to kill or be killed...
...disgusted with myself, for had I the courage of a Kennedy or a King, I would be fighting this war at home with words, rather than in a perimeter tower with guns. With that thought in mind, I pledged myself to peace-and at that same time felt very hypocritical, for I knew full well that when it came right down to it I would have to do my talking with...
...twelve of the 35 New York residents collared by police were "clean" under the provisions of the state's tough Sullivan law?they had pistol permits. Unless an amateur psychiatrist in a gun shop or a police station had recognized him as a paranoid schizophrenic, Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper who killed or wounded 46 people two years ago, would have been able to assemble his lethal armory despite strict gun controls. Sirhan Sirhan violated three California laws in merely possessing the pistol he used to kill Bobby Kennedy, but he still had the weapon. On the other hand...