Word: parapet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
...Again. In Manhattan, Charles Vogel leaped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, crashed on a terrace one floor below, crawled over the parapet and plummeted (this time successfully) to the 30th floor...
Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...
...There are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...
...church's dome started burning. Elderly Fireman Thompson scrambled nimbly up an iron ladder to the dome, picked up a hot bomb, hurled it to the ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...