Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still Going Up. Since then, Di Salle's main preoccupation has been to preside over a controlled thawing of the freeze, to iron out inequities and build an overall system of controls that will keep prices from soaring through the roof. He does not pretend that any order he issues now can stop prices from rising still higher. They will climb at least another 5% o 6, Di Salle admits...
...little Margaret Case, the celebrities who hung around father Frank Case's celebrated Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan were just a lot of gabby customers. Doug Fairbanks Sr., who had just made his first picture, was a real pal and used to skip rope with her on the roof. But the bunch that ate lunch together almost every day, at a round table in the Rose Room, had little time for her; they were too busy trying to top each other's wisecracks...
Lavatories and a new roof are planned for the Radcliffe Library next summer. Half of the $100,000 anonymous gift received last December, which the 47-year-old leaking roof helped the Annex get, will be used for these repairs...
...larger house in our village in Yemen," she said, "but this one [and she pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...
...arrived at twelve o'clock that night. "The skies will break apart, thunder will crash, and the body of Christ will come rocketing down through the stratosphere, the atmosphere, and into the hemisphere!" The audience began to fidget nervously, an old man on my right looked up at the roof in horror, but the show was just beginning...