Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue? Said Adams: "The opposition gyrates, orates and berates in their frenzy to find a remedy to heal up their sores caused by the continuing combat between the Northern and Southern wings. I concede they have their hands full trying to corral implacably opposed Democrats under one political roof. Their political lasso, evidently, is a headlong attack in the area of their most dismal performance...
...bottles of gasoline crashed against buses; hard-pressed police squads fired deadly volleys into swirling bands of rebels, carted hundreds of demonstrators off to jail. Under the yellow stucco arcades of old buildings, the air was blue-grey with tear gas. At one point five schoolboys popped onto the roof of a building overlooking El Silencio, hurled stones at a police bus below. Six cops piled out, sprayed the tops of all the buildings with rifle fire...
Conquest: Alone with the universe, the astronomer peered into the eyepiece of the telescope that towered through the observatory roof and spied on the moon. His voice echoed in the empty chamber. "Now, I note about twelve impact craters, and the largest of these I shall mark on the map with an A." said Dutch-born Dr. Gerard Kuiper head of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. By such sharply focused glimpses of scientists at work, Conquest (CBS) started to live up to its promise as a $1,000,000 series of ten science programs that will stretch...
Edward J. Reynolds, Administrative Vice President, said yesterday that he hoped the altered building would include as many as six or seven floors. He stated that he did not foresee any physical alteration of the exterior of the building, except for perhaps the roof...
...builders to pack more quality into houses. The new directive specifically instructs FHA local offices that "no otherwise acceptable" credit application for a house costing more than $12,000 is to be turned down because the builder spent "a few hundred dollars" putting in better wiring, insulation or wide roof overhangs. Such quality items, said Mason, actually cut down on house maintenance costs. Likewise, complete kitchens were okayed for houses over $12,000. Where builders in the past had to leave out appliances because they ran the initial cost too high, buyers went right out and bought them on short...