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Word: toweringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the Tower''). Not for three centuries did historians begin to wonder whether Crookback could possibly have been quite so crooked. Now. Ohio University Historian Paul Kendall has tried once more to get at the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...single network ran away with journalistic honors. All three had their share of beats; CBS cut off Sherman Adams (who had just addressed himself to the "millions watching TV") to bring viewers an absorbing, technically brilliant scene from inside the airport control tower and a radarscope-view of Ike's Columbine winging toward the city. Equally expert and alert, NBC's mobile unit rode herd on the President's motorcade all the way to the St. Francis Hotel downtown. Next day NBC beat the other webs to the President's first "live" press conference (film versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Biggest Studio (Contd.) | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Richard III. Dirty work at the Tower of London as reported by the propagandist pen of William Shakespeare and chillingly played by Sir Laurence Olivier (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...palm-shaded heart city of the rich Cauca River Valley. In a district jammed with factories, warehouses and slums, the drivers bedded down for the night with their cargo-more than 30 tons of high explosives. At 1:07 a.m., like 30 blockbusters, the cargo blew up, in a tower of red flame and seething of black smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Deadly Cargo | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...fleeting kiss on the beach is about all Shinji can hope for from Hatsue, since her father is a wealthy shipowner with small use for penniless apprentice fishermen. Author Mishima, who seems to have learned some of his flower-arranging from Hollywood, maroons the couple in an abandoned tower during a storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love on a Japanese Isle | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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