Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neglect, they still live, for the most part, as they did in the 1860s. Their women wear flowing skirts copied from those worn by wives of frontier cavalry officers. Their shelter is still the "hogan," a windowless, one-room log structure with a hole in the dirt-covered roof to let out smoke. They still live far from streams because unfriendly spirits inhabit them; most must haul their water from one to 15 miles...
...Indians were killed as Americans died during nearly four years of the second World War. There is still no possible numbering of the wounded and the mutilated who survived, or of those who must yet die for lack of the simplest medical facilities, or of so much as a roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought of, the massiveness of the mania of rage...
...Roof Spotting in the Stadium...
...Saturday duties present a small variation from his daily fare. Last year he watched Varsity games from the Stadium roof where he could supplement by telephone communication Dick Harlow's limited view at ground level on the players' bench. This fall he makes varsity substitutions, crouching on the sidelines in front of the bench and giving players the final world before they go into the game. Harlow leaves him a free hand in this matter following a general overall briefing before the game and precluding unforeseen difficulties...
Policemen who tried to break up the mob met with a hall of empty beer cans hurled from nearby windows and roof-tops. One cop was mashed in the face with a beer bottle, as the disturbance with a beer bottle, as the disturbance spread. Private lawns and homes, parked cars, and the austere old Taft were hit by the celebrants before they went home...