Word: parapet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party Committee, 1930-34; personnel chief, All-Union Party Central Committee, etc.), but he managed to remain the eyes & ears of Stalin. During the gory purges of the 1930s, Malenkov's inexhaustible memory worked late hours behind the scenes. He kept his own head so carefully below the parapet that in 1939, when Malenkov was chosen to make a minor report to the 18th Party Congress, his name was still virtually unknown to all except a few high party officials...
...topcoat. Jones got off on 45, walked up the winding stairway to the observation tower atop the building. The tower door was locked, but he found a window just above the 47th floor and jimmied it open. He climbed out, stepped gingerly along a three-foot ledge to a parapet at the corner of the building, took off his topcoat, folded it neatly on the ledge, sat down and lit a cigarette. A window washer nearby called to Jones, "I know how you feel, boy. Come back." Said Jones: "I got troubles...