Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being filled in to provide 40 miles of expressways and parking space). By night, its theater and nightclub districts glow in gaudy neon. Fun-loving citizens fill dozens of giant cabarets, one of which offers 800 hostesses to entertain customers, or ogle the sights from a 338-ft. observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time...
...leaving a bottle of whisky behind to preoccupy the invaders. The whisky proved more powerful than the rebels' wands: they soon reeled away. By early morning, the city seemed to have fallen, but Hoyt was not sure if the Stanleyville airport had fallen with it. "Report from control tower says 'fighting' at airport," he flashed Leopoldville. "Air Congo reports all quiet...
Bicycling to Work. St. Helens, the "glass city" of Britain, is today dominated by Pilkington's new glass headquarters tower and its five plants, which are complemented by factories in eight other British towns and in seven foreign countries. The family-owned company produces more than 500 million square ft. of glass annually, nearly a fifth of it by the new float process...
PEPSI-COLA. The boat ride winds through the canals of Walt Disney's doll land, past a tipsy Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal and Swiss Alps, while his prodigious puppets-leprechauns, sheiks, Cossacks, cancan dancers and Dutch boys and girls-sing and sway to beat the band...
...turned up on Capitol Hill for only one session during the week and surprised no one by voting against the Johnson Administration's poverty bill. He was already on record in a scathing Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee minority report, drafted in tandem with Texas Republican John Tower that labeled the poverty bill "an attempt to reap political rewards," and he accused Johnson of trying to sell "almost exact replicas of programs that were tried by the New Deal during the Depression...