Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hans Morgenthau has never been lost in an ivory tower. A foreign policy expert from the University of Chicago, he promises to rid his 175 Summer School students of their "favorite illusions" before the close of the term. Morgenthau, himself, is a professional realist who finds idealism very expensive...
...clock in the Detroit city hall tower was bonging high noon when Harry Truman, to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," strode to the rostrum facing crowded Cadillac Square. To Detroit's shirtsleeved thousands, celebrating their city's 250th anniversary, and to the nation, the President spoke a somber warning...
About this time Frank Agamonte began dragging Barbara Bungay around the tower by her long golden tresses. We knew immediately she was drunk by the way she threw her ams about and flailed her legs. After a while Frank got tired, and let Barbara go. She started to crawl toward the kitchen. We let her go. Joe by this time was running around being the life of the party by trying to break chairs over Gretchen Flyspec's head. Just then Gretchen got a brilliant idea. We all jumped Joe and put him under the coach. We then...
...next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with no oil background, a dairy expert. Makki's chief technical consultant is a young geologist who admitted he didn't know a catalytic cracker from a fractionating tower (Abadan has both...
...stenographic record of his twice-weekly tilting with reporters in press conference.*Sample bout: on Dec. 11, 1928, he outlined-his plans to attend the dedication of the carillon at the Edward Bok bird sanctuary in Florida. To one reporter, unable to understand the plans for the bell tower, Coolidge snapped: "Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary, and putting up these bells to interest the birds in music...