Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enraged by this time. He climbed out of the car and slammed the door so hard that the snow on the roof slid off on the ground. "Maybe Durocher was right," he mused as he started back to his room, "nice guys finish last...
...experimental course and as such is still flexible. Twenty hours a week on one course may be too heavy a load for a man who must spend forty-two hours in classrooms each week. But you do not have to tear down a house to repair the roof. The administration has not made provision for a course in design theory to take the place of this one. Design 1 should remain, even if the amount of required work it demands is decreased...
Writes Father Gerard: "While we were passing the time of day together, it struck me how close this tower was to the moat encircling the outer fortifications, and I thought it might be possible for a man to lower himself with a rope from a roof of the tower onto the wall beyond the moat." A few weeks later, with the help of confederates outside, he did exactly that...
Snowballs, rather than the usual Cambridge sleet and snow, pelted automobiles and pedestrians passing Massachusetts Avenue early yesterday afternoon. The firing station, manned by two young Cantabrigians, was the roof of the empty building between the Harvard Book Store and the Harvard Automobile Company...
...plane swung low over Elizabeth, fighting for altitude. In a top-floor apartment at 656 Salem Avenue, Mrs. Wally Shulan heard the plane. "I think it's going to hit," she cried to her husband. Skimming low, the airliner lost flying speed, smashed into the roof of the apartment house, skidded across, spilling gas from its broken tanks, and dropped into a children's playground. Within seconds the 50-family apartment house was in flames...