Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadcast Death. The first King of Jordan, one of the Arab world's few statesmen, fell to the ground. Five accomplices of the assassin fired into the roof of the mosque, and the crowd of worshipers stampeded. (The microphones of Radio Jerusalem in the mosque were connected, carrying the sound of the shots to thousands who had tuned in to listen to the prayers.) Abdullah's body was trampled in the panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according...
While Reporter Bernard Turnbull was out on a pre-dawn flood assignment, he missed a bit of news at home: his house was flooded to the eaves and his 21-year-old son was rescued by boat from the roof...
...wife and two children $25 a month. There
was no bathroom. The water supply: an untidy well next door.
...delaying action probably saved the life of Pope Clement VII. Recent Popes have not needed such protection. In July, 1914, while Pope Pius X was still hoping that Europe's differences could be settled without war, the Guard commander proposed mounting a gun on St. Peter's roof. Said Pius: "Shooting might frighten the Holy Ghost away, Commander. Don't let's have any noise...
...first, the major was obviously unbalanced. He had lost his sense of time and place, and insisted that he was living on the roof of his house. He had trouble finding words for things, and described the white-clad nurses as "sugar-iced people." He still thought he was being persecuted, and for a time he was hard to handle. But his wounds healed and he soon settled down. After three months, the major was alert and rational again, and reading the daily papers. He denied that he had ever suffered from a suicidal mania and refused to believe that...