Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turrets. Most startling feature was in the chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...
...tenants, had his two sons haunt them with unearthly nocturnal shrieks and chain-clankings. In Weldon, N.C., Landlord J. W. Williams used dynamite, blew out a lot of flooring but not his eight tenants. In Hapeville, Ga., Landlord R. L. Ballard failed to budge his tenants by tearing the roof...
...window. His strength began to fail. For a while he called hoarsely for help. Then with a desperate effort he pulled her back. A woman seized her four-year-old daughter and jumped. Her husband leaped with her. They fell together-very slowly it seemed-and thudded on the roof of a court below...
...gasoline. In five minutes it crumbled marble, melted doorknobs, roared up the multiple chimneys formed by the elevator shafts and the stair wells of the 22-story building. Walls took fire on the first five floors. Superheated gases and choking smoke blew through corridors all the way to the roof. But for what seemed a long time the streets outside stayed as dark and quiet as if nothing had happened. Then, at last, glass shattered and tinkled and a woman screamed. Fire trucks raced up, sirens moaning...
...launched an oblique attack on the U.S.: "[U.N.s'] early activities have revealed a tendency on the part of certain countries to play a dominating part in the organization to the detriment of the cause of peace and security." His audience of 18,000 cheered him to the roof. Outside the Garden, the cops boredly walked their beat, chomped their gum, guarding Mr. Gromyko's right to freedom of speech...