Word: clapboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the whirling hurricane crossed Kingston at 9:45 p.m.; for four roaring hours after that, it lashed the city's galvanized iron roofs and clapboard frame houses. Breadfruit, coconuts and avocados rained into the streets. In the harbor, six steamships were driven ashore. With the deafening winds came typical hurricane rains, 17 inches in a little more than five hours. It was the worst storm in Jamaica's wind-battered history...
Among its drawbacks, Leverett gets food from the central kitchen skulleries. Another disadvantage lies in the broken-up entries of Mather, one of the two sections of the House. No great poetry will ever be written about the view from Mather Hall, but the clapboard tenements, rubbernecking down on the Mather courtyard, also leer at Leverett's private tennis court, the only one in the Houses...
Home for the Holidays. At week's end, the President flew home to Missouri (in June, when he was visiting the family's big, white, old clapboard house in Independence, the Communists had marched across the 38th parallel). His social schedule was so crowded that, as he put it, "it's almost like my day after day in Washington. But I like it, because it's home." He showed up at a Masonic dinner in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, and found himself involved in a good-natured disagreement...
...hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into one devout congregation, celebrating together the payment of the first $15,000 installment on the church mortgage...
Even non-members have the run of the house on weekends. Since money rarely changes hands inside the clapboard walls, and payment are made via monthly bills, visitors find it easy to pass their debts onto half-willing newly-met members...