Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party there had never been a chance for another real leader to rise to the surface of the Democratic Party. Harry Truman was clearly not such a man. So the rebels bayed frantically off in all directions in search of a winner-and succeeded in pulling the roof down about their ears...
Biffle got the news on the Bellevue roof, exploded with surprise, put down his bourbon and water and bolted for his third-floor room. There he rounded up Illinois' Senator Scott Lucas and Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon. They held a quick council of war. Cried McMahon: "What profit is it to the party if we nominate Douglas to pick up a few congressional seats in The Bronx and then see a second Democratic Convention convening in ten days in Richmond...
...political party's platform is really less like a platform than like a large, cantilevered roof under which all wrangling factions can temporarily huddle. After the huddle is over, no one pays much attention to the roof...
When the job was done, it was ready to be presented to 1) the rest of the drafting committee, 2) Harry Truman, 3) the whole convention platform committee, 4) the whole convention. The roof might be slightly altered in the process, but only slightly...
Under the Roof. Frantic cries from inside a nearby flattened shop came from two women and two children pinned beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast. The two rescued women, their babies in their arms, crawled out, red-faced and shaking, shouting "Arigato, arigato!" (Thank you, thank you!). Almost immediately the fire jumped across the street and caught the building from which they had just been rescued...