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Word: gambrel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were no writers in Cornish, N.H., and no plumbing or furnace in the gambrel-roofed cottage Salinger bought on a 90-acre hillside tract overlooking the Connecticut River. That winter he happily carried water from his stream and cut wood with a chain saw. For company he hiked across the river to Windsor, Vt., and passed the time with teen-agers in a juke joint called Nap's Lunch. The kids loved him, but mothers worried that the tall, solemn writer fellow from New York would put their children in a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SONNY | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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