Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens don't run wild in fear of the roof-top-stalking menace with a carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...
...base in central Japan one day last week, a heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point...
...last week, his civilian clothes hidden under his hospital uniform, John dropped in to the Broadmoor infirmary, complaining of illness. An attendant went for a doctor. Left alone in the room, John seized a blanket, made a beeline for an open window, dropped on to a shed roof, threw the blanket over a ten-foot wall and slid down to freedom. A villager spotted his exit and gave chase, but John eluded him. No siren alerted the village to the escape: the Ministry of Health does not believe in such devices. Soon afterward the lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe...
...defense had trouble getting settled, too. Williams poured in four goals before the game was three minutes old. But then the varsity steadied. Moe Baldwin scored the first of his three goals, and Pete Brooke added another to make the count 4 to 2 just before the half. The roof collapsed permanently thereafter...
...seventh and last frame, however, the roof fell in on Beresford and two other Yale throwers. Twelve Crimson batters came to the plate and eight came across with runs. Contributing to the scoring spreed were five bases on balls, one error, solid singles by Ralph Robinson, Russ Johnson, and Arnold, and a two-run double down the left field line by Bernie Akillian...