Texas tower

noun

1. an offshore radar-equipped platform supported by foundations sunk into the floor of the ocean, formerly used as part of a system for warning against air attacks.

Example Sentences

Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play, began studying play in 1966, when he was tasked with figuring out a motive behind the Texas Tower shooting.

From Los Angeles Times

Survivors from the University of Texas tower shooting came out and told their story.

From Salon

In 1966, Bill Helmer wrote a first-person account of witnessing the University of Texas tower shooting.

From Salon

I hid from the Texas Tower sniper.

From Washington Post

Here in America, it has been 56 years since one of the first gun massacres, the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966 that claimed 17 lives.

From New York Times