Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin radio told the world that flames swept the Rouen cathedral, destroying the roof, ruining the delicate, priceless rose window and melting the great bell which tolled when Joan of Arc burned...
...father at sea, and when the baby daughter's ringlet came from home it was bright red and father Quigley was very proud. Karl Kawa was a married machinist from Buffalo who had made a little model of the house he planned to build back home; the roof came off so that he could look inside...
Seven miles away, the U.S. Fifth Army was hard at work. Home-front listeners could not hear the gunfire but, with the special imagination that listeners bring to radio, they thought they could feel the roof of Station JJRP tremble under the impact of exploding shells, as the warcasters described...
...door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls out of the sack, snuffed out the candle and slept; a vagabond come back...
Cronin's men quietly invaded International House. If the girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs...