Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Foreign Ministers' communiqué showed that the successive stages had been kept, Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan hit the roof. With ample senatorial backing, he stormed to the White House, got a Truman promise that no U.S. atomic secrets would be released until a full security system is in effect. He also got assurance from the State Department that the four stages were really meant to be simultaneous. If so, this passage in the Moscow communiqué was even more cryptically worded than other Big Three statements...
...learning the facts about money." He spoke ruefully: "It's all very well to die for an idea, but to die for an idea that you can't remember. . . ." He struck a conspiratorial tone: "I took Mussolini an economic theory that would have blown the roof off Europe...
...From under the roof of my umbrella I saw the washed pavement lapsing beneath my feet, the news-posters lying smeared with dirt at the crossings, the tracks of the busses in the liquid mud. On I went through this dreary world of wetness. And through what long perspectives of the years shall I still hurry down wet streets-middle-aged, and then, perhaps, very old? And on what errands...
Suddenly a coupling parted. The heavily loaded car rolled back, jumped the track and plunged down the mountainside. Of the 400 in and on the car, 114 were killed and 206 injured. A pregnant woman who had been riding on the roof gave birth to her child in the wreckage, then died...
...through the war, the Harvard and M.I.T. laboratories, just a mile apart, carried on a friendly but deadly serious rivalry: the Tech Radiation lab developed better and better radars, and the Harvard R.R.L. produced better and better jammers. From the roof of the Bio Lab, the Harvard technicians took delight in jamming Tech radars across the roof tops of Cambridge...