Word: towers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-protected fuel tanks. J.F.K.'s radar picked up the thunderstorm's ominous hook-shaped rain cells. Rain itself poses no unusual problem for pilots. Yet real dangers lurked invisibly in this storm's particular pattern of high and erratically shifting winds. The airport control tower's landing logs and later explanations by pilots documented the elusive perils...
That policy is one that reflects an old, ivory-tower conception of what Harvard should be: an institution set apart from worldly concerns like profit, interested only in the public good...
From the observation deck atop the twenty-six story main tower of the hotel I could see people in pirogues coming home to their bamboo shacks across the bay after another day of fishing to survive; and my ship, too, unloading a thousand tons of foreign aid grain, reminding me that three hundred miles away there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings...
Yale managed to put a "#2" after the "R" on the tower just prior to the race; when the Elis left the dock on their painting expedition, Huntsman slyly repainted the official's boat with a black "R", By racetime (8 p.m.), the rock and the boat were still black. Moreover, the Radcliffe colors still showed through the hastily-covered blue and white dock...
...remained on the tower as the sole Bulldog victory of the day. But just before the Radcliffe squad departed. Sacks symbolically painted that over also, in addition to hoisting a broom on a Yale flagpole to signify a clean sweep. It was clear to all who was in fact number...