Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of sports-conscious Detroiters asked the city to build a $14,500,000 stadium with 104,000 seats and a removable roof. Reason: it would provide a handy site for the 1952 Olympic Games if Finland (the host apparent) is unable to hold them" [TIME...
...They started shooting revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...
Fastened to Roof...
...balloons were fastened to the roof of the delicatessen by 150 feet of rope. The roof of the building is accessible by a flight of steps from an alley off Boylston street...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...