Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pisa, the famed Leaning Tower was lopsided as ever, but the medieval cloister and burial ground, Campo Santo (one star), had its roof destroyed, ruining the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli...
...Ghost on the Roof" (TIME, March 5) was pointless because no responsible section of U.S. opinion favors sanctions against Russia, and short of drastic sanctions we are unlikely to modify Soviet policy...
...With a roof over his head, three meals a day, and a job, the British worker is eager to face the future. On the same terms, so is British business...
...special show opened with Noel Coward, who got royally booed by the boys from Brooklyn, then conquered even them with Mad Dogs and Englishmen. But it was greying, ingratiating Maurice Chevalier, with his bawdy wisecracks and old U.S. song hits, who pulled the roof down. When the band struck up the same exit-tune the Canteen plays in Manhattan -Good Night, Sweetheart-the boys balked at leaving. They had finally found just what they wanted-something both redolent of Paris and reminiscent of home...
...annual report for 1944, the Atlas president, blunt, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles (cousin of OPAdministrator Chester Bowles), told the stockholders: "The roof of the Fairhaven plant has so many leaks you can't count them all, and the floor is falling in all over the building. The sides of two of the boilers are caving in. The machinery is mostly very old and something falls in pieces almost every...