Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
Worse shocks were to come. Her sister, with whom she had expected to stay for a few days, was living with a "friend . . . who . . . flatly refused to let me spend a night beneath their roof." Monica hurried to sanctuary with an aunt in Sussex, then on to visit her uncle, Stanley Baldwin. But not even an ex-Prime Minister could preserve her from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung...
...Roof. A little miffed when the U.S. Military Intelligence turned down his offer to serve as an expert in Far Eastern affairs, Field spent the war echoing Moscow's demands for a second front and helping plan and finance a scheme to bring the most active Red fronts under one roof. A busy hive of half a dozen front groups is the old three-story Astor office at 23 West 26th Street. Field supports it with his inherited wealth...
...came to pass in an eveningtide that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bath-Sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" . . . And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . saying: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront...
...fire, which the Nazis set before they moved out, the cathedral's heavy larch roof and its covering of multicolored tiles collapsed into the nave. Since then, Viennese have donated 15 million schillings (about $570,000) to restore the cathedral, but St. Stephen's still needs 250,000 tiles to complete its new roof; by last week the church had money enough for only 40,000. In a tiny hut in St. Stephen's Square, donors could buy one tile for five schillings (about 19? and Theodor Cardinal Innitzer pleaded with Viennese to help clothe their "oldest...