Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH us, BOB! When Sproul promised that "Your wishes will not be ignored," cheering undergraduates raised the roof. The Columbia job went instead to Ike Eisenhower, whose doctoral degrees are also honorary...
...adequately without air travel. So far this year our bureaumen there have logged 61,000 air miles under, to say the least, Spartan conditions. Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has a cogent explanation of what it is like...
...afternoon and above the swirling storm the sun was shining. Yet the plane wing, which seconds before I had watched flap like a bird's wing, no longer was visible. The shriek of the wind drowned out the engines. Water began to pour in through the roof and sides...
...thing begins to be terribly tedious toward the middle of the second act, and the curious things that start to happen when Massey is left alone on the stage help things only slightly. A little man, dressed as Massey, climbs out of a chimney (the set is a roof) and starts to berate his master, presumably the body and emotions of the scientist, for just about everything that he has said and done in the previous scene. All this falls somewhere short of delightful...
...Death. One night last week, the beleaguered students brought their band onto the roof to play the national anthem. Guadalupanos and spectators in the streets, including other school children, joined in the chorus: "We are free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...