Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While a crowd of 150 cheered, one courageous Dunster men crawled out onto the roof, and drowned Coombs. Water bags peppered the audience, and then one man went down for a hose...
...last week the change of command and the change in methods that went with it had sent uneasy rumors and angry charges up & down the 163 miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where Jim Forrestal had finally managed to get Army, Navy and Air Force together under one roof. Some of the Pentagon uneasiness and anger over integration had long since spread to the 1,650,000 men in the nation's vast military establishment. With the coming of Louis Johnson, old Army man and longtime friend of the Air Force, the unseemly feuding broke more openly into public...
Unable to seat the crowd in a local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
...Roof. Brother Albert outlived all the rest. He was present on the day in 1899 when the shop moved to the Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs...
Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...