Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pants to the Axis," which was just as brash, said Short, as if he himself stepped into the ring with Joe Louis. Republicans trying to hobble the bill with an amendment which would prevent the President from transferring German and Italian ships to the British, cheered to the roof mention of Lindbergh...
...explosive bombs just 72 hours after Winston Churchill had there spun one of his finest fabrics of oratory. Big Ben, whose broadcast chimes had become a symbol of empire, had his face blackened and cut, but in a few hours the huge clock was running again. The exquisite timber roof of 900-year-old Westminster Hall, under which Charles I, Guy Fawkes and Warren Hastings were tried, caved...
University Cyclotron Committee, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, chairman, Jabez C. Street, John J. Livingood, George B. Kistiakowsky, Kenneth V. Thimann, A. Baird Hastings, Joseph C. Aub, Shields Warren, and Roger W. Hickman, for the installation of a neutron-absorbing roof for the protection of cyclotron operators from the effects of neutron radiation...
Lady Astor watched the explosions; James Brand watched his dockyards pasted. Then, without warning, a high explosive went off near by. Every window in the Astor house blew out; Lady Astor's clothes were covered with powdered glass. Incendiaries landed on the roof. She and her guests ran up and doused them with sand. The going got thick; for a time they went into the cellar. Later they came out to douse more incendiaries. Early in the morning, when the all-clear sounded, Nancy Astor dragged herself upstairs and fell into bed in her windowless room...
...Gestapo" was too much for the Government benches. The whole west of the Chamber raised the roof with outraged yowls of "Order! Order!" When order finally came Mrs. Nielsen finished neatly by taking words out of Lapointe's mouth. "I will do what I think is right whatever may be the consequences...