Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Stark radioed the Washington traffic control tower and asked if he could come in "on contact" (fly within sight of the ground). When Washington flashed an O.K., Stark started down from 7,000 feet. At 6:13, when he had passed over Martinsburg, W. Va., and was almost clear of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Stark made his last report-3,000 feet and still descending (through rain and fog) for a look at the ground. After that, Flight 410 was heard no more...
...York Post and PM ("Even if bits of our hide are tacked on the radio tower") gave the show a favorable review. So did the Herald Tribune's Columnist John Crosby ("It took courage . . . zeal and discretion"). Four Manhattan dailies gave it the silent treatment. (Snarled one editor: "The papers could do a better job on radio any week.") But the public liked it; more than 350 letters piled into CBS the first week. Encouraged, Hollenbeck promised soon to turn a "detached, noncommittal eye" on wire services and newsmagazines, as well as on the newspapers' columnists, comic...
...soldiers perch like drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
...hoped one day to be President of the U.S. The Colonel shot him a withering look. "Out of the question," he snapped. "No big publisher has ever held high public office." As any fool could see, if a man had a commanding view from the Tribune Tower, what would he want with the White House...
True Love (Mr. O'Keefe), who rooms downstairs, is represented as a talented scientist but he shows little of the scientific spirit; he is, in fact, a pretty depressing type of momma's boy. It is only too clear to seasoned Miss Lamarr that this leaning tower of quavering male virginity could never survive the shock if he learned of her Past. He learns, of course; the rake is murdered; Miss Lamarr goes on trial for her life. True Love, Dutch-uncled by Psychiatry, comes of age just in time and snags the real murderer. The whole show...