Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, damp wind swept Fort Benning when Sergeant Pullen's tank rumbled into line with the rest of Company D and the 68th Armored Regiment. Company D was well back in the regimental column. The Old Man, with the visiting generals and civilians around him near the reviewing tower, was an indistinguishable blob to Sergeant Pullen and his men. An officer's indeterminate bellow floated down the wind. Sergeant Pullen and his three-man crew took their places in front of the tank. Their gloved hands rose to the salute, held it for three aching minutes. A band...
...Bertie McCormick was free to concentrate his main fulminations against Willkie's "treachery," reading him out of the Republican Party as "the Republican Quisling," "a barefaced fraud," "Roosevelt's Charlie McCarthy." At the Lend-Lease hearings in Washington last month Cousin Bertie came out of his aristocratic tower bellowing in the manner of Cousin Joe, "I'm very willing to let Britain have whatever she needs, and I think she doesn't need anything...
...Yorkers who turned out to greet Torger Tokle last week had a hunch that he would make quite a yump. Lined up around the course like a gigantic keyhole, they watched his familiar blue-clad figure flick down the "inrun" at 50 m.p.h., float past the judges' tower, and glide, arms whirling, into their midst in a perfect landing. His first jump measured 167 ft. In the gathering dusk he took off for his second. This lime he landed on one ski, nearly fell. When the span was measured, a mighty roar went up. Tokle had soared...
...encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...subject is 'National Defense' and our first question must be,-- What danger threatens us? This question has received so many answers in recent weeks as to remind us of the Tower of Babel. We must try to reduce chaos to order...