Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side were two 85-ft. rockets, each one containing five 39-ton solid-fuel segments stacked one on top of the other. Within three-tenths of a second of ignition, the two solid-fuel boosters reached their full thrust in unison, lifting the whole package clear of its umbilical tower in four seconds. After 108 sec., with the Titan already 28 miles up, the reddish, rubberlike solid fuel burned out and the core rocket roared to life with 470,000 Ibs. of high-altitude thrust. This was the crucial moment, but the change from solids to liquids went off without...
Last week, at the National Catholic Eucharistic Congress in Pisa-where Galileo, according to legend, dropped a cannonball and a bullet from the leaning tower to prove that objects of different weights fall with the same velocity-Pope Paul VI formally praised Galileo, along with Dante and Michelangelo, as "great spirits" of "immortal memory...
...standing committees has been revised, in order to deal with the suggestions that are expected to emerge from the area groups. (The Scheffler Committee will metamorphose into a permanent committee on academic policy.) And over the summer, the Ed School will move into its red-brick Roy E. Larsen Tower, which features "department centers" on each floor. The centers--already christened "water holes"--include kitchenettes, and large windows; they are designed to encourage informal shop talk...
Boxing writers, politicians and editorialists proclaimed it the fight to end all fights-if they had anything to say about it. In Pennsylvania and New York, legislators instantly introduced bills to ban the sport; in Washington, Senator John Tower called for a Congressional investigation. But fix and fraud are not synonymous. The truth was simply that a big, tough, fast young boxer hit a woozy old stiff in the face. Nobody will ever be sure just how hard Cassius Clay's punch was, but it was hard enough to make Sonny Liston call it a payday...
Hitler's orders were blunt: if Paris could not be defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...