Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typically, he believes that he is doing all he can for U.N. under present conditions. Immigrant Lie has built a roof over his and U.N.'s head, has kept the organization running. Since he took over, he has recruited from 45 nations a Secretariat of 2,992 men & women, ranging from hat-check girls to high-powered economists...
...first in the Western Hemisphere and the third in the world. Located just below the timber line on the edge of a community of houses maintained by the Climax Molybdenum Company for mine employees, the observatory is directly on the Continental Divide and the peak of the observatory roof, which has a unique conical shape to prevent snow gathering, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific...
...wood for the roof, we had to supply a, belt for a band saw. To get the belt we had to promise some cement in exchange. To get the cement we had to promise some wine. To get the wine we had to promise to help the wine merchant find an apartment. And we were able to find an apartment because I knew of a woman who had committed suicide because...
...tall, compact buildings surrounded by nature. He plans for everything, from freeing "the housewife from her daily servitude" to the Assembly's "Hall of Lost Footsteps" (lobby) to his favorite project: a world museum, shaped like a pyramid. "One can go up on foot outside following the roof arranged as a road, the spiral mounting to the top. ... I have never been considered a great romanticist. However, I can well imagine two opponents of Assembly or Council room starting the road leading to the top . . . they discuss and argue . . . they are unyielding, irreconcilable . . . they know no common denominator...
...apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...