Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Practice these obstacles spelled "studies" and "recommendations" handed down with little eclat from an ivory tower visible to the eyes of a handful of men. With the possible exceptions of '26 and the three-year spurt capped by Langdon Marvin in 1940, few Councils made themselves known to their constituents...
...University of Texas, where he has taught for 28 years, Dobie likes to be called Professor Pancho. His lecture preambles-"Now, I'll tell you a little story of Liver-Eating Johnson . . ."-have delighted thousands of students. He refused to move into the new skyscraperish university tower. "It looks like a toothpick in a pie," he said, and opened an office in the oldest building on the campus...
...below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
Even though (as he loves to point out) his Chicago Tribune is published deep in the heart of the U.S., Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick feels a little unsafe. Last week the Trib reported to its readers that when the first atomic bomb falls on Chicago, 3,000 Tribune Tower employees will have a bombproof hole to scamper into. For his atomic shelter, the Colonel set aside the second basement of the Tower, "a room massively walled and ceiled with heavy concrete and steel beams...
...bruised Bob Kennedy, is Red Hill, a defensive tower of strength on the flank...