Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...Eliot men guard their individuality, Master Finley treasures the myth. He cheers on House football, and joins in with tennis players. He seeks frequent opportunities to light up the House tower in honor of special events. And his famous recommendations have brought House members more than their share of Rhodes and other awards...
Letting down in fogbound St. Louis, See overshot the runway on his first pass, went into a tight turn to begin a new approach. "Final ILS 24," he radioed the tower-meaning that he aimed to make an Instrument Landing System descent on runway 24. Inexplicably, he continued his turn. Just then, some witnesses heard a loud whooph!-possibly indicating an engine flameout. Others reported hearing an explosion...
...just taxied out for its takeoff past the wreckage of Canadian Pacific's Hong Kong-to-Tokyo flight. On the night before, it circled fog-closed Tokyo International for nearly an hour, hoping for a break in the overcast. Finally, its pilot gave up and informed the control tower and his passengers that he was making for Taiwan, 1,300 miles to the southwest. At that moment, the visibility momentarily increased to five-eighths of a mile at the airport, just above the minimum safety standard, and the pilot elected to land instead...
...radar-directed approach was perfect until he was only a few hundred yards short of the runway. Then the control-tower radar scanner saw in horror that the huge DC-8 suddenly had sunk twenty feet below the correct glide path. "Level off," commanded the tower operator. Seconds later, the plane dropped off the radar screen. Too low, the plane's wheels apparently snagged on the breakwater at the edge of the runway, sending the DC-8 cartwheeling down the field...