Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make sense. "Man, working, tall, house, fall" means "A man working on the roof of a tall house fell...
Italy's surrender was of highest military, political and economic significance to the U.S. The Mediterranean was now an Allied lake. Militarily, the Allies were not now pacing fretfully around Festung Europa- they were on the drawbridge of Hitler's fortress. And since the fortress has no roof, the whole of the German heartland lay exposed to constant attack...
...Colonel Serge Obolensky, top-ranking extraman of Manhattan, won a tribute from the World-Telegram's society editor. She reported that the durable charmer, "famed for his graceful waltzing, wasn't handicapped in the slightest by his heavy paratroop boots when he twirled around the St. Regis Roof the other evening...
Under the supervision of the fire marshal, the Graduate School had the building cleaned up and made ready for new occupants. The job was too much, however, and even today the banister shakes, the roof shows splotches from the many leaks in the recent history of the building, and the attic is still a source of worry to the Cambrdge Fire Department...
...many an emancipated Chinese woman, aware of the law against polygamy but forced by war to share a roof with another, waits patiently for the time to resume the fight for monogamy. To these wives the death of Lin Sen was the loss of a great friend, the month-long ban on courtship a welcome breather...