Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delivery. For a year Yungnien's dwindling population had been perilously supplied by the Nationalist Government. Great, 60-pound loaves of unleavened bread and cases of canned fish, pitched from low-flying aircraft, had warded off starvation, but they had also: 1) punched gaping holes in almost every roof; 2) leveled some dwellings by direct "hits" on the center beams; 3) killed at least 22 people...
...roadside, with telephone lines down. . . . Negotiations are in progress with the National Government for the cost of reparations. . . . The Roman Catholic Church and the buildings on the property in which we were residing have been 'bombed' 38 times. . . . One large package of dried fish plowed through the roof and landed on the pastor...
Footloose. In Lille, France, tile-setter Yvon Dherire slipped from a roof, plummeted six stories, landed unhurt in a baby buggy from 'which a mother had just snatched her child. Consequence: the mother fainted, fell, broke an ankle...
Walls of glass brick will throw some light on the highly-charged subject. Among the up-to-date equipment that will speed up the workings of the new giant is a huge travelling crane, installed under the roof, that will help to handle the ponderous atom-smashing apparatus...
...lack of essential building materials has delayed construction of the companion research building, but the "brains" for the cyclotron now has a concrete roof over its head, and all the floors and partitions have been installed...