Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial U.S. planes have yet tested the "over the roof" route from the U.S. to Japan. Last week, three U.S. Army B-29s did it for them, made it look ridiculously easy. The planes took off from an airfield on the island of Hokkaido, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, and headed for Washington, D.C. Heavily loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline apiece, they hoped to make the trip in one hop. As they swept past Kamchatka, Russian fliers did acrobatics around them. Over Fairbanks, Alaska, when the outside temperature fell to 20 below, the crews idled about...
...borrowed an office typewriter. There was no telephone service until this week in this part of Berlin. I've also managed to get a car. (It's a lemon.) I still have to try to get the windows of the house fixed and also have the roof repaired...
...Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments...
...allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three cheers for the U.S. Navy and Army...
...next night, backed by soldiers, the hoodlums in white attacked the newspaper Critica and tried to burn its building. Critica telephoned for police, but none came. So the newspaper sounded the siren on its roof. The victory crowd rushed up, drove out the Government forces at the cost of two dead, many wounded...