Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, but millions of Londoners lined the route of the royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
...defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...
Photographers rushed up to get the picture (see cut). Then, while thousands watched from adjacent buildings and from below, two Richmond steeplejacks went up with a block & tackle, fastened a rope to the dangling man. They lowered Steeplejack Lawson to the roof. The halyard remained twisted. It could stay that way, for all Steeplejack Lawson cared...
...nothing purely stock about the way it is told. The characters have a good deal of character, humor and likeableness (Sinatra mourns to Kelly: "Sometimes when I watch you, I got a feeling that there's something wrong with me"). Kelly dances beautifully and Sinatra sings the roof off. They seem genuinely concerned over their deception of the girl. They seem genuinely worried when they find their own affections setting them at odds - a difficulty nicely solved, for Sailor Sinatra, by warmhearted Waitress Pamela Britton. And their four days' strenuous romancing is as rich as fruitcake with diversions...
Fires & Faces. Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff-bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind-but people and faces are what he is after. Heads popping out of windows to see tragedy in the street below, the nervous crowd around the body of a murdered man, a man eating a hot dog, these are the pictures that make the book...