Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she visited London in 1949 as quite a young girl, Piri Halasz looked at the bomb sites, went to Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and a pub where she remembers having "a dreary serving of watery mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias...
...between Johnson and Connally, Texas politicians-not least, the President-understand that the crossfire is routine politics. Connally, who is up for a third term, is anxious to demonstrate that he and State Attorney General Waggoner Carr, his hand-picked candidate for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent John Tower, are not Washington-controlled puppets. In the process he aims also to galvanize conservative support against the liberal faction that hopes to seize control of the party at the forthcoming state Democratic convention. While critical of the President's domestic spending policies, the Governor carefully ascribes them...
...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take more time and cost more in fuel. Circling in a fog over Tokyo in March, a Canadian Pacific pilot decided to divert his flight to Taipei; he changed his mind when he heard a better weather reading from the Tokyo tower and tried a visual approach. The crash killed...
...most cautious and experienced pilots have been known to make just such errors. Example: the St. Louis crash that killed Astronauts Elliott See and Charles Bassett. Pilot See, having missed his first pass at the runway, told the tower that he planned a second instrument-landing approach in his T-38 jet trainer. He inexplicably continued to fly a visual pattern and made a wide turn just below the overcast, ran into a patch of fog, apparently lost orientation, slammed a building-and just barely missed demolishing the room where all the space capsules for the next four Gemini flights...