Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ladies room in the basement and a new roof will be among the other renovations. The second and third floors will receive new tables and chairs, and the walls and woodwork of the second floor will be painted...
...waves of Allied aircraft tore away rows of buttresses, flattened the whole southern side of the nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...
...near the North Iranian village of Turujan, just south of Behshahr, about three miles from the Caspian. In the remote past, the sea lapped at its entrance. Primitive men built fires there and stared out across the dark waters. One cool evening, thousands of years ago, disaster struck. The roof fell in, burying three of the cave dwellers in Pleistocene sand and gravel, and prehistoric ages piled sand and stone above their bones...
Coon and Dupree found the fossils in a cave buried under more than 30 feet of gravel and sand. One of the skills had been completely shattered by the collapsed roof. Coon said fragments of the other two, when pieced together, indicated the cavemen were Homo Sapiens...
...last week the A.F. of L.'s new union had triumphed over all four TV networks and every one of the big TV production centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. It had also finally brought under one roof five competing performer unions: Actors' Equity, Chorus Equity, American Federation of Radio Artists, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists.† Soon, Heller and TvA expect to mop up the eighty-odd local TV stations scattered across the U.S. Says Heller: "We're a powerful group, there's no question of that...