Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a parade two miles long. Showers of rose petals fell on Jinnah's mat of grey hair. Police guards on the roof tops saw to it that nothing heavier than rose petals was dropped...
...such notes of sanity were lost in the echoing cacophony of prejudice. The young sailor sitting near the clock suddenly had enough. He leaped to the railing around the gallery, clung precariously to one of the steel uprights that support the roof and yelled: "Mr. Speaker, I demand the right to be heard...
...Minister Winston Churchill marched beaming up the center aisle of the U.S. House to answer the arguments of Senator "Happy" Chandler (see col. 1), Custodian Gus Cook and a squad of Secret Service men began searching the musty labyrinths of the Capitol from top to bottom. They reconnoitered the roof, poked their flashlights around the paper-littered attics over the House chamber, peered under every seat in the chamber itself, combed the cloakrooms, including telephone booths, explored the Speaker's office, the Appropriations Committee rooms, the restaurant, the Sergeant at Arms' office and the Speaker's private...
...Twas a balmy Sunday morning when our young disbursing officer Ensign Water Tight Drawers arose for his first day of duty. All of his specimens from the Harvard supply school were neatly stacked from the deck of the cabin to the roof ... Yes, he had this stuff cold ... The G. A. O. was just a blow ... After all congress passed a relieving bill to keep all D. O.s out of Portsmouth after the last...
...They call their development "Ratio Structures" and have completed a full scale sample in The Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus the structure has no weight-carrying walls...