Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tank of the county jail in Magnolia, Mississippi. Twelve of use are here, sprawled out along the concrete bunker. Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Ike Lewis, and Robert Talbert, four veterans of the bunker, are sitting up talking--mostly about girls. (Charles) McDew...is curled into the concrete and the wall; Harold Robinson, Stephen Ashley, James Wells, Lee Chester Vick, Leetus Eubanks, and Ivery Diggs lay cramped on the cold bunker; I'm sitting with smuggled pen and paper, thinking a little, writing a little; Myrits Bennett and Janie Campbell are across the way wedded to a different icy cubicle...
With the score at 65-60, Bill Danner stole the ball and was heading for the basket when Dartmouth's Sam Barton sent him flying head-first into the wall behind the backboard. Danner, dazed, missed both his free throws. With 12 seconds left, Danner tied a Harvard record by nearly going through the other wall...
...designed by Architects Slddmore, Owings & Merrill. Though the Knox wing is modern, it ingeniously avoids clashing with the original 1905 gallery, which has been described as the "finest example of pure Greek architecture in the U.S." Built on lower ground, the wing has the appearance of an extension wall that leads to a tower of dark glass...
...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...banks over the years have lived on cozier terms with their clients than Wall Street's 109-year-old United States Trust Co. It has always been the bank's custom to invite its customers to lunch, supply cakes with candles when clients' children have an 18th birthday, advise on everything from selecting schools and planning careers to buying horses. Offering such friendly service has proved to be highly profitable for U.S. Trust-particularly because its customers, past and present, include such names as Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt, and Whitney...