Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourist is prepared for the pyramids or the Parthenon. But the Great Wall of China? More than 2,480 mortised miles of esplanade, built over the bodies of 300,000 serfs and some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct...
...Ph.D. in philosophy was once a oneway ticket to an ivy turret. No more. With declining college enrollments, fewer faculty openings, low starting salaries and little chance for tenure, college teaching has lost much of its allure. Even worse, a Mellon Foundation study estimated that by 1990 the U.S. will have a surplus of 60,000 Ph.D.'s in the humanities...
Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...
...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...