Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on to the church. Light was shining through a hole in the roof. Below it an unexploded 500-pound bomb lay on the floor. Some American soldier breathed heavily in my ear: "God, that was a miracle." We turned around to look at the altar. It was still intact...
...have come a long way," said General Dwight Eisenhower, standing on a chair on the roof of a hotel looking down on the blue Mediterranean. The hot afternoon sun beat into his eyes as he faced 200 British and American officers, charter members of his Allied Force Headquarters, one year old last week...
...grandstand is bare. Its green & white striped roof is streaked and mottled. The gaudy umbrellas are folded and locked away. Inside the arched entrance of Newport's famed Casino, newly installed racks hold a few bicycles, and a sign reads: "Officers Club. For members only." From one or two of the ten still playable courts comes the subdued pock of a quiet game. Ten other courts are overrun by rank grass. Old Tom Pettitt, the Superintendent of Tennis, straw hat on head, still sits on the clubhouse porch. The deserted Championship Court is kept inviolate, awaiting the return...
...last time the farmland value line took a perpendicular upward direction it finally went through the roof. Many a farmer is still in hock because he forgot then that what goes up, etc. On the awful 1921-35 toboggan the average value of a U.S. farm nosedived from $10,284 to $4,825; some 85,000 farmers hit bottom and went through the wringer in the '30s. But this time there are indications that the U.S. farmer does not yet need to be reminded of those doleful years. Most hopeful contrasts between now & then...
Since he became Prime Minister, Saracoglu sees fewer diplomats than formerly, but still receives them on most pressing matters in his big, comfortable office in the Prime Ministry- one of the rare buildings among Ankara's supermodern structures to preserve the Turkish style of architecture of overhanging roof and pleasant turquoise and red tile facing. Interviews are usually friendly, straightforward, eased along by the Prime Minister's ready smile and humor. He likes to be playful in conversation, but is tough-minded underneath his wisecracks. French is his only foreign language, but in the U.S. a dozen years...