Word: roof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 1,500 devotees thronged to hear it from all over northern California, from Los Angeles, even from the East. They raised the roof-but in a solid manner: they were no mere swarm of jitterbugs buzzing before the latest of the many swing band sensations. They were mostly seasoned jazz tasters who had gathered to sample vintage New Orleans music produced by a group of the Negroes who had been in that city when jazz was young...
Saturday evening, May 22, will find the dormitories of Mellon Hall deserted of potential 2nd Lieutenants, for they will be found at the Parker House Roof dancing with WAVES, WAACS, and & few "civilians" in celebration of their graduation the following Monday morning. By dint of the grapevine, this promises to be a very "gay" affair...
Then, in the darkness before dawn, men of the First and some of the incomparable Eighth swept forward under a roof of shells. Gurkhas swarmed up hills, British troops plunged into dugouts. The first objective was captured in three hours...
...Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...
...personnel in charge of snakecharming. Pan Am had hired one Akbar Shuja, a citizen of Northern India, for duty at the tea planter's bungalow which serves as barracks for Pan Am pilots there. His job: to lure hooded cobras out of the bungalow's thatched roof. Last week Pan Am began to suspect that Akbar is a slick character; specifically, that he puts the snakes back when the pilots are away, pipes them forth each evening when the pilots return. If Akbar is fired, Pan Am operating costs will drop 30 rupees a month...