Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...59th day the sonic gear picked up another marker in the underseas graveyard. Over went the camera, 285 feet down off the island of Alderney. Onto the screen came the image of a submarine's conning tower. As the camera swept along the hull, the brass name plate came into focus: Affray...
...just ten minutes behind schedule, Captain Hedden reported in to the tower at Oakland Airport, and began a standard instrument letdown through the overcast...
...royal blue swimming trunks, the Rev. Robert Simon climbed the 115-ft. diving tower. This time, as he looked down at the shimmering river and the upturned faces of the crowd, he was not frightened. He prayed to St. Teresa of Lisieux with a calm heart. This, he hoped, would be his most lucrative dive...
...board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion, I'll make...
...years, generations of royal swans have lived a fine life on the Thames, admired and fed by folk from Magna Carta Island to the Tower of London...