Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experts had been predicting that the Chinese would perform the feat before long. Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said so again. Last week, with consummate timing, less than a day after Nikita Khrushchev's downfall was announced, the Chinese finally did it. From a steel tower in the desert of western Sinkiang, north of the Himalayas, they exploded a crude nuclear device...
...farce began when the Cairo control tower turned away Tshombe's special Sabena flight because of "blocked runways." The Boeing flew on to Athens, where a furious Tshombe booked himself back to Cairo on a commercial Ethiopian airlines plane. The flight got in this time, but Tshombe was greeted by Nasser's security cops, whisked off to splendid isolation in Uruba Palace, Nasser's 40-room state guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe...
...East Berliner's side of the wall is less decorated. A banner proclaiming "Never Again War and Fascism" was, until the middle of August, the only slogan. At that time a large sign was put up facing the Western observation tower which says: Hier Beginnt der Frciheit von Imperialismus, von Revanchismus, von Kriegpolitik; "Here Begins Freedom from Imperialism, from Revanchism, from War-Politics...
...present, the slate is serving its intended purpose--a coffee tabletop--on the eleventh floor of G-tower. According to its owners, the stone came through its ordeal unscathed...
...owners had left the slate outside their suite on the eleventh floor of G-tower for about 45 minutes when the two juniors noticed it there and attempted to move it down to their room on the seventh floor...