Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bear Hug. They made it, roped together, and stood on the roof of the world. It was exactly 11:30 a.m. on Friday...
Thus, with laconic drama, the ninth British Everest expedition told of the conquest of earth's highest spire. In reaching the roof of the world simply because it is there, the New Zealander and the Sherpa mountaineer had done what Columbus, Scott and Lindbergh had gloriously done before: asserted that puny man can measure all things earthly...
...movie have indicated that it will be a commercial success, the odds are that it will manage to get many theater bookings even without a Production Code seal and in spite of church objections. A German-language version called Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (The Virgin on the Roof), which was shot simultaneously in Hollywood, will be shown in Germany soon...
...near the Ohio-Michigan border. To the north, others moved erratically across the Michigan landscape. One hit Tawas (four dead), another Erie (four dead), another skirted Ann Arbor, 35 miles from Detroit. At Milford, Mich., the elementary-school band was practicing in the gymnasium when a twister sucked the roof off the gym, but hurt none of the youngsters...
...windup, there was a reading of General Lee's farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, and for the finish, a roof-raising Dixie with a 16-bar rebel yell. When it was over, there was hardly a dry eye in the house...