Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional way to build a "status" office building in Manhattan today is to erect a slender tower set back on a giant open plaza. But the Ford Foundation is the world's largest philanthropic organization, dedicated, among other things, to "fostering the realization of individual human dignity and worth." It gives away $300 million a year, much of it for studies to improve city living and architecture, and for the arts...
Semolina (16) pilchard (17) climbing up the Eiffel Tower. (18) Elementary penguin (19) singing Hare Krishna man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen...
...scored the "ivory tower," saying that the chairs in urban studies to be supported by the grant should be "used for black people from this community to provide special expertise regardless of their doctoral qualifications...
...defeated in November by a Republican-who would be the first to hold the office since Reconstruction. Though outnumbered 6 to 1 in voter registration, Texas Republicans are ideologically close to Connally Democrats. In a 1961 runoff election to fill Johnson's old Senate seat, Conservative Republican John Tower won handily, was re-elected last year with a startling 57% victory margin. Next year, Tower will be a possibility for the governorship, along with freshman Republican Congressman George Bush, a 20-year Texas resident who is the son of Connecticut's former Senator, Prescott Bush...
...cost-trimmings have left the basic design for Mather intact. The House will contain a 21-story tower flanked by three 5-story sections...