Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author perhaps more richly deserves a new appraisal than Michel de Montaigne. Four centuries have passed since, pent in his tower study outside Bordeaux, he set down the Essays that were to transport his name to literature's firmament. Immured in an age that was largely brutal, incurious and ignorant, he managed to convey a message and a spirit so lively and civilized that they have come down through the centuries virtually unscathed...
...Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul-ups in distribution; plants lay idle for days waiting for raw materials. Kim's flying...
...debut last winter as Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Still speaking as though he had just finished the Sermon on the Mount, he plays Scott Swenson, a barnstorming crop duster who crashes his plane in northern Mexico and is held by the police for demolishing a water tower. To raise money, he tells the police captain of an old enemy he has seen a moment ago driving through town with a blonde; this fellow just happens to have a price of $50,000 on his head for a kidnap-killing he may or may not have committed...
Sitting on the sun deck off his 34th floor office in Cleveland's Terminal Tower two weeks ago, the chief executive of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway gasped as an unexpected puff of wind caught the papers at his side and whisked them over the parapet. Walter J. Tuohy quickly enlisted a financial vice president and four aides, and all set out on a frantic search for the papers. For 21 hours, they scrambled over rooftops, peered out on lower ledges and tramped the rush-hour streets below. No luck...
...Tower." The question-and-answer passages could have been custom-scripted. What about those Republicans who criticize his conduct of the Viet Nam war? Just give them time, L.B.J. suggested. Some day they may grow up to be good Republicans-like the "distinguished Secretary of Defense" once was, or Dwight Eisenhower, whose diplomatic, political and military wisdom has been "a tower of strength...