Word: overheads
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...building we are on comes under fire. A shell whistles overhead as we rush inside. The building shakes as each shell finds its target. Another shell crashes with an earsplitting sound into the parking lot below. We race down the steps, floor after floor, afraid for our lives. This time there are no mumbled apologies as we push past the guerrillas. Once back in the hotel I have two quick Scotches...
...building shakes. Then we rush over to the TIME office, which is something like a bunker, since it is on the ground floor and set into a hillside. For the next half an hour we sit and drink warm beer and listen to the shells whistling overhead...
Turner knows he faces an uphill battle. He knows too that there are a lot of corporate buzzards circling overhead, hoping CNN will falter so they can pick its carcass clean. But Turner has built a unique career on being an optimist. And on being right...
...amphitheater is made of wood, and its vast roof arches gently overhead like the soundboard of a huge violin. It begins to resonate to the sonorities of Dvořák's Eighth Symphony. "Wood is the best acoustic material there is," Gottschalk says. "Concrete is dead. Wood is alive." Appearing peaceful and intent, hearing nothing that requires correction, he lets the Dvořák build and flow...
...York City subway riders have long complained about the worn, graffiti-plastered cars that frequently break down and often lack air conditioning or even overhead lights. So it was good news earlier this year when the city decided to buy 825 gleaming new cars and retire many of the worst clunkers in the system...