Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cease all personal appearances at which his "friends" are charged an admission. But part of it is shrewd business practice. Boyd has no illusions that his popularity can continue at its present rate and he hopes to convert Hoppy from a television idol into a brand name before the roof falls...
Damage to some New England colleges was great. Vermont state police estimated that the cost of the storm to Middlebury College would exceed $100,000. Winds blew the roof off the University of Vermont's gym and a Bowdoin College dormitory...
University Department of Building and Grounds officials said last night that the worst damage came at 10 p.m. Saturday night when two brick chimneys in Grays Hall toppled through the roof, leaving holes that allowed rain to wash away the wall and ceiling plaster of four rooms. Three students living in the top floor suite will not be able to return for another two weeks, while the three students living on the floor below have been evicted by the workmen for about three days. No one was injured, though there was a sleeping Yale man in the top floor room...
...least 30 of its members since the hawk--Falco Peregrinus Anatum--arrived on October 16, according to a count made by Peter L. Ames '53 of the Ornithological Society. Ames climbed the tower last Friday with the clockwinder to count carcasses dropped by the hawk from the upper roof...
...Leaking Roof. At week's end, India's mission in Lhasa went back on the air. The reason for its silence: nothing new to report. There had been no flight, the Lama was still in Lhasa. "The Tibetan government," formally announced India's Ministry of External Affairs, "is greatly distressed by the wild rumors emanating from Kalimpong. The military situation as depicted from Kalimpong has no, repeat no, relation to the facts." Caught at their crystal-gazing, U.P.'s Sharma and others hastily reported that the Lama's "attempted flight" had been "prevented...