Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of the police station at Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel-Aviv, after an Irgun raid last April. The British said that he and his pals had held up and disarmed the police, were about to seize the arms in the station when other cops on the roof opened fire, forcing the raiders to withdraw. An Arab constable was killed in the Skirmish. Gruner made no defense, refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the Palestine Government, insisted that he be treated as "a prisoner...
...suddenly flickered around one of the overheated stovepipes. In the screaming panic, a few of the dancers tried the windows. But the Wehrmacht had barred them during the war, when Loebel's was a prison-camp storehouse. The lights went out. In a terrible burst of flame, the roof collapsed...
...George Spencer, one of 40 British soldiers at the Saturday night fancy-dress ball, "most people seemed more concerned about their clothes than their lives. Almost everybody jammed into the entry way by the coat room, and there they piled up in front of the narrow door. Then the roof fell...
...relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble, wintry sunlight strained through the dirty glass of the station roof...
World War II made most Americans conscious that the arsenal of democracy has a strategic roof (Canada) and ground floor (Latin America). Postwar developments have made them acutely conscious that the roof is a convenient avenue of entry for burglars and that ideological con men have already moved in among the respectable residents on the first floor...