Word: parapet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting on the sun deck off his 34th floor office in Cleveland's Terminal Tower two weeks ago, the chief executive of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway gasped as an unexpected puff of wind caught the papers at his side and whisked them over the parapet. Walter J. Tuohy quickly enlisted a financial vice president and four aides, and all set out on a frantic search for the papers. For 21 hours, they scrambled over rooftops, peered out on lower ledges and tramped the rush-hour streets below. No luck...
...opening a lunch area on the parapet of Harvard's latest, tallest, whitest, modern building, the administration could seize the initiative in restoring a lively sense of community to its alienated student body...
...were some black experiment, he needs the battle even when life itself has almost been kicked out of him, needs the action, the booze, the orgasm--that inescapable moment--even with the fetid breath of murder and suicide and madness congealing in his nostrils. Even dizzy on the parapet, exhausted in the desert, he pushes on, tracking the devil, hunting out a more ultimate disaster; ready, even on the precipice of collapse, to go the very depths of possible experience...
Khanh is capable of handing out both medicine and discipline. At his orders last week, a Viet Cong saboteur-a 20-year-old Saigon student caught carrying a hand grenade-was stood up before a sandbag parapet in Saigon's market square and shot...
...Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...