Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife slept in her bedroom. Next morning, weary from months of overwork, heavy-eyed from an almost sleepless night, Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall, handsome man with greying hair. While passers-by stopped to watch in horror and some screamed. "Beware, khawaga [foreigner]," Norman removed his watch and sunglasses, laid them on the parapet. Turning his back to the street, he moved three steps backward, dropped to instant death on the pavement...
...Rome, Santo Stefano Rotondo, consecrated in the 5th century and the world's largest church in the round, has been closed for eight years while rain pours through gaps in the roof. The sign on the barred door reads: Attenti alle frane (Watch out for falling stones). ¶ In Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie (which houses Leonardo da Vinci's recently restored Last Supper) also has a fine cloister with Bramante frescoes, largely ignored and badly damaged by water seeping through walls and ceiling. ¶ In Florence's Santa Croce, Italy's greatest Franciscan church, rain...
...Airport is completed in 1960, none of its structures will be as startling as the saucerlike oval sheltering Pan American World Airways' passengers and planes. In plans for Pan Am's $8.000,000 jet-age terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers who do not have to go through customs will get their baggage...
...have a group of office buildings built on two levels focusing on a spacious central plaza. The problem was to build the memorial in the plaza, yet keep the area free and uncluttered. Knight's solution: to build his memorial pavilion between the two levels so that its roof becomes part of the plaza. Inside the glass-walled pavilion is an auditorium in the round. Jutting through the roof of the building into the plaza will be three arrangements of tubular, gold-colored carillons that will soar 80 feet into the air and gently chime throughout the center. "Architecture...
...league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses is making nightly trips across the roof of the huge house to her ward's bedroom, she lets fly with a shotgun...