41.   In this century, towering figures like Roosevlt, Churchill,De Gaulle and Konrad Adenanur have flirted with and practiced monopoly politics.

42.   In some seven decades in politics, Bosch was a towering figure.

43.   Juan Bosch, a towering figure in Dominican politics for more than five decades whose leftist policies prompted a military coup and later a U.S. invasion, died Thursday.

44.   Rosenbaum predicts Ellsberg will be seen as a towering figure.

45.   Towering political figures in two states won easy victories.

46.   Unlike his predecessors, Deng and Mao Tse-tung, Jiang is no towering figure able to ignore opposition.

47.   U.S.-Russian relations have cooled, tensions have risen, and Yeltsin is hardly the towering figure he once was.

48.   DeBakey, a towering figure in US medical circles, was asked by the Russian surgeons to help in preparations for the surgery.

49.   The towering figure of Mario Soares heavily overshadows both would-be successors.

50.   The towering figure of Mario Soares heavily overshadowed both would-be successors.