Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more hours, 600 slogan-chanting West Berliners tramped faithfully behind Dieter Bielig's cross as he crusaded the length of the Wall. Women with small babies joined the column; a wheel-chaired cripple pulled frantically on his wheels to keep up with the throng. Not until 1 a.m. did the mob tire and go home...
Four days after the anniversary explosion, an East German youth who tried to leap the Wall was shot down by the Grepos and left bleeding for almost an hour before he died within sight of a horrified crowd of West Berliners. Though U.S. sentries legally could have crossed the border and rescued the writhing refugee, they remained on the Western side of the Wall. U.S. Commandant Major General Albert Watson sent an angry note to his Soviet opposite number, protesting this "barbaric inhumanity"; there was no indication that the Russians were the least bit interested. Within 30 minutes...
...mighty blast echoed deep inside towering Mont Blanc (alt. 15.781 ft.) last week, and a thick wall of rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy...
...craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume from his eyes and cursed his broken compass...
...prayer, noted the magazine, "was really a rather limited, circumscribed prayer directed to a limited, circumscribed God." In its next session the court is expected to decide whether other religious expressions in school-such as Bible readings and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer-also breach the wall between church and state. The justices will have a variety of such practices to think about...