Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five of her nine children were safely in school. The 32-year-old mother helped her three little boys out to the narrow roof of a bay window, 30 feet above the street, picked up her blanket-wrapped baby, and climbed out herself. A yelling crowd was gathering in the street below. Mrs. Randall dropped the baby's blanket to three men and a woman on the sidewalk and called to them to hold it up. She dropped her children one by one. The first three landed without a scratch. But the fourth, James, who was eight, was heavy...
...explosion occurred in a little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
Whlie about 200 students watched, Cambridge firemen sent a ladder to the roof of C-entry, turned a spotlight on the building and ran a hose through the front doorway before discovering what had happened...
...examples, Wilson exhibited plant-layout drawings showing how jet engines and car-body stampings, or planes and automobiles, could be produced under the same roof. "A large proportion of the manufacturing space could readily be made available for either purpose" with equipment and workers transferred quickly from one type of work to the other. In times of limited defense production, manufacturers could maintain pilot lines, continually updating their know-how for turning out military products on an all-out schedule. Then if all-out war came, the U.S. would be sure of all-out war production-and in time...