Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georgia's crafty Carl Vinson hit the roof. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee he had been getting hotter & hotter at Johnson's methods. After a hurried visit to Johnson's office, he came back to Capitol Hill with Johnson's abject surrender in writing-and to be sure about it, read it into the record on the House floor...
...Gayden, is tall and blond; he wears a sufficiently causal blue blazer, drapes himself expertly on a mantelpiece, and quotes poetry on the run. He also apparently has quite a past, with dire hints of such escapades as pushing a boy off a roof, breaking the hearts of countless women (one of whom, it seems, subsequently stuck her head in a gas oven,) and driving his college roommate to hanging himself--a Harvard, inevitably...
Indoor Drainage. The most startling feature of Breuer's house was the "butterfly roof" which made space for a second-story bedroom under one wing and (by substituting a single indoor drainpipe) did away with outside gutters and drains. Despite such practical advantages, traditionalists might object that the tilting roof gave the inside of the house a slightly seasick air. Like the exterior walls, the ceilings were largely finished with unpainted cypress siding, which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring...
Ruins at Dawn. The work of claiming the living soon ended. Despite the plumes of white water which finally rose to the smoking walls, the fire roared with almost explosive fury. The roof and all the floors crashed in. Debris rumbled down. At dawn, as the pumps labored, St. Anthony's was a smoking ruin...
...team spent the next two nights under Navy's hospitable roof, and then was led out to the lacrosse field for the slaughter. The Middles, one of the East's perennial powers...