Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheraton Roof--With four very attractive girls from Cambridge, Joe Washington, Tom Yeder, Bill Schmaltz, and Rod Willoughby made a party here Saturday night...
...home. Soon as I got near I could see it was close -crowds and the most awful bloody wreckage all over the lot, police lines streets away. ... I took a quick look. Our house was standing-well, more or less standing. But it was blitzed to bloody hell-the roof clean off, the windows and doors gone, the walls sagging...
...point was to get the junk off what furniture wasn't smashed and patch the roof quick against rain. . . . The blast had pushed the back and front walls some eight inches from the sidewalks so we couldn't risk ladders. We had to climb the inner sidewall and snake a tarpaulin through, weight it and throw it over the front and back walls since you couldn't stand on them. And you never knew when the floors would go. Yes it was a bit sticky, that...
...when you're at work you feel fairly all right because you've got a fair shelter and a good roof spotter elected by the men so he's trustworthy. And once you're asleep in your own Anderson it's not too bad because you're so tired you don't give a damn anyway. The bad time is the in-between time. From the moment you knock off you are on edge. Christ, it's all very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there...
Their bombs blew Tweed's house apart so that he had to drag his bed under a fragment of roof to keep out of the rain. He woke up in the night at the sound of firing but foggily decided that it was practice and went back to sleep. He did not realize that the Japs had landed until he heard their field guns firing. Then Tweed walked down to Government House to get the score and found that the Governor was going to surrender...