Word: clapboarded
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...night after night to verify troublesome details. On his jaunts, Oneto keeps an eye peeled for old-fashioned houses, especially those with plenty of gingerbread: "I'm only interested in San Francisco architecture before the [1906] fire." A good example of Oneto's preference is the turreted clapboard mansion in Circa 1880. "I liked the angular shadows the light made, and the way it hit the bay window...
...during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part of Germany, while he lives in a barn or an old air-raid shelter near the pits. At the Zollverein mine, near Essen, 1,500 homeless miners live in bleak, clapboard cabins sprawling in the shadow of the pithead. The turnover among them is immense. "They don't budge in winter," said a mine official. "But when the spring comes round, you see a look in their eye, and one day they're gone...
...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...