Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters in nearby Louvigné, Lieut. Jean Leroux of the Gendarmerie Nationale got up from his desk and went to the roof. He was supposed to help the revenuers and he would have to discipline the tocsin-sounders, but there was no great rush. Leroux paid no attention as farmers barricaded their barn doors and pulled their little wagon-stills into the fields to be hidden under piles...
Rivera is building the temple by hand, and by inches, with five Indian helpers, putting into it a good part of the money he gets for his easel paintings. Upstairs will be a studio for himself and atop that a thatched, high-gabled roof in the Mayan style. He hopes to do some sculptures himself after he has moved in, to decorate the outside of the building. "But I have not much time," he says matter-of-factly. "Before I finish...
...pound weight hangs up above the shack, according to Jimmy. "She broke once about 14 years ago--came right on through the roof, but I ducked," Jimmy relates...
Britain's Ernest Bevin spoke with fervor and measured hope: "We have today embarked on a great adventure ... a most famous historical undertaking . . . This new [North Atlantic] pact brings us under a wider roof of security ... It is certainly one of the greatest steps toward world peace ... a new era of cooperation and understanding...
...lacrosse, had been sweating out the indoor practice season with one eye on the 52-odd varsity and freshmen tryouts and the other eye on the barometer, waiting for a chance to get his hopefuls outdoors, where men are gazelles and there aren't any balls bouncing off the roof onto one's head...