Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipyard barracks were quiet- too quiet-and on Sunday night rain drummed on the roof. Otto Stephen Wilson, 33, a fry cook in the yard commissary, looked at his face in the mirror. He could see why women smiled at him. With his black hair and neat mustache he resembled Robert Taylor, the actor. And women had no way of knowing what he was thinking, so secretly, when he smiled back at them...
...blinked at the puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women & children were leaving their homes to hurry wildly along the sidewalks, clutching bundles of belongings...
Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...Diddle Diddle. In Perry, Okla., a 1,000-lb. bull belonging to Henry Gengler broke out of his pen, struggled onto the roof of the barn, climbed to the ridgepole, coasted down the other side, jumped 16 feet, cracked several ribs, knocked himself...