Word: toweritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally a response came, in broken English, from the control tower...
...ICAO report stated that the Vincennes had no radio equipment capable of monitoring the channels used by civilian aircraft talking to the control tower at nearby Bandar Abbas. If it had, its crew could have heard Flight 655 get course and altitude instructions placing it near the ship. When the Vincennes became alarmed, it and the U.S.S. Sides sent seven vaguely worded warnings on an emergency military frequency that the airliner could not receive. They also sent four challenges on a civilian distress channel, but they were not specifically directed at any particular aircraft. Finally, the Sides sent a twelfth...
...describing the quasi-summit as a Gorbachev visit to the Trumps with a stop at the U.N. squeezed in, was scratched from the schedule before the Soviet General Secretary ever came to town. But the developer's hopes revived when he heard that Gorbachev was in front of Trump Tower. He raced down from his 26th-floor office, but the man waiting on the street turned out to be a Gorby impersonator who had won a look-alike contest. Trump shook hands and posed for a picture anyway...
...central square of Leninakan, the hands on the clock tower stood frozen at 11:41 a.m., as if to record for posterity that terrifying moment when the city of 290,000 was, without warning, shaken violently by a rumble from the earth. Concrete and stone snapped like brittle twigs, hospitals and schools crashed down on patients and children, and workers were entombed in factories. Within minutes the city was split apart like an accordion. Forty-five miles to the north, the town of Spitak, population 30,000, was virtually "erased from the face of the earth," in the words...
...speech was far from a purely academic one. Gates, who is currently editing a Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature, cautioned his audience against any Ivory Tower approach to Black literature. Instead of remaining sheltered "in the swaddling clothes of our academic complacencies," Gates said scholars must be aware of "the yawning chasm between our critical discourse and the traditions they discourse upon...