Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interdiction Fire. The "roof" of the Allied beachhead-the line from the northwest corner to the east coast-had not caved in, but it was sagging. The loss of territory (see map) was disturbing enough; more so was the threat to Kyongju, communications hub of the northeast corner. The enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull...
Last week Canada's finest private atom bomb shelter was finished. Although it looked like a simple mound of concrete in Mrs. MacDonald's backyard (see cut), the roof was steel-reinforced and 32 inches thick. Inside, the shelter was 8 by 4 by 6 ft., had six-inch walls and floors of waterproof concrete, was equipped with a food storage locker, oxygen tanks, electric lights. The underground entrance had a 30-inch, lead-lined door fitted with a oneway safety valve to equalize the interior air pressure after a bomb blast...
...American but by a British performer!" "This time, for a change," echoed the Daily Mail, "it was not a Hollywood star who had the fans in a frenzy. It was an ex-painter's laborer from South Wales." Last week, after ten straight months of raising the roof over the U.S.'s Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, et al., London's fickle fans were going wild over a crooner of their...
Wald and Krasna were already bubbling with plans and projects. With Hughes's approval, they were going to start a profit-sharing system for top-rank stars, writers and producers, boasted that they would assemble "under one roof, the smartest people since the Greeks." They planned to hire a corps of the nation's top newsmen to scour the world for original story material. Their films would cover the whole scale from social drama (Country Club, a study of Midwest manners & morals) to ribald comedy (Mother Knows Best, a collection of "clean-dirty stories" with Mae West...
...military tyrant. Like many another Marine Corps officer, Craig believes that the welfare of enlisted men comes first. On Bougainville (which rhymes, in marine parlance, with Hoganville), officers slept in foxholes if the men slept in foxholes, ate whatever rations the men ate. On postwar Guam, although the roof leaked in Craig's hut, he refused to detail carpenters to repair it until they had finished work on the enlisted men's recreation club (with six bowling alleys...