Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doves. Last week, on the second anniversary of The Bomb, the people of Hiroshima stood with bared heads bowed around a 43-ft. peace tower to hear a specially cast bell toll for Hiroshima's dead. Muffled sobs stopped when giant firecrackers began to slam like .50-caliber machine guns. Tiny parachutes bore peace festival streamers above the crowd. Thereafter, Hiroshima observed its day of disaster with singing, dancing and boating. Boys & girls pulled peace floats through unshaded streets...
Eliot House has a new instrumental room in the basement of A entry in addition to one in the tower which has been soundproofed. Workmen are now completing a record-storage room in the library and a record playing room...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...
Although the Mediterranean ("bluer than ever this year") drew its quota from the Paris office, Correspondent William Chapman chose to seclude himself in a rented room and terrace of an 11th Century tower on a river near Tours. Bureau Chief Charles Wertenbaker, en route to the Basque coast ("my favorite place in the world"), tarried in Spain for his favorite spectator sport, bullfighting, and was so moved that he turned out a report of what he saw for TIME (July...
Mystery in the Tower. But, as always, the big news of the week was a story of mystery, gore and violence. In the blood-stained Tower of London, MacDonald the Raven had been found brutally murdered, his head severed from his body. When the ravens leave the Tower, says an old legend, Britain's majesty will topple. As it searched in vain for MacDonald's murderer, Scotland Yard suspected the worst. Another raven was hastily imported to maintain the garrison, and an extra guard of six troops thrown about the remaining ravens. Solemnly and in full state...