Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly noticing when his hat blew from his hand (it was recovered by a nimble Secret Service man). Marching down the ramp into the Cow Palace auditorium with Mamie at his side, Ike watched delightedly while delegates trumpeted and paraded for nearly 20 minutes. Down from the roof came hundreds of red, white and blue balloons, some labeled "Ike," some "Dick." Finally, the preliminaries over, President Eisenhower faced the 1956 Republican Convention and began to read a memorable speech that lifted the Eisenhower doctrine to a new peak of intensity and power...
...sister's side on her great day?" and joined uncles and cousins of bride and groom across the wire from Fatma's house. They watched Fatma in her white organdy dress and thick rosy makeup as she was escorted to a waiting taxi, its roof piled high with eiderdowns and gold-embroidered pillows. Then, as the taxi moved off, preceded by the bridegroom's party and followed by Fatma's friends, the divided village began to sing and dance and clap hands. "Why don't you have the feast on our side?'' shouted...
Flattop's Boy. In Trenton, Tenn., after an eight-hour police inspection, Minneapolis Tourist John Sward was allowed to proceed south in his 1942 Oldsmobile equipped with hot plate, fully stocked icebox, cooking utensils, groceries, bed, solar-heated water tank, showerbath, and, lashed to the roof, a bicycle for use in case of breakdowns...
Glued to the Roof. At last Polyak got the pilot's door open only to face a flight mechanic brandishing a Very pistol, and the secret agent, who was furiously loading an automatic. With a comrade's help, Polyak rushed to the attack, while the pilot continued to whirl the plane through its crazy dancing. "Some of the worst of the fight took place while we were glued to the roof of the plane," said Polyak later. At last the lieutenant managed to wrest the gun from the Red agent and fire a shot into the air. Capitulating...
Timber Topper. In Jacksonville, figuring it was only a matter of time before a large, diseased magnolia tree in his yard would fall on the house, Walter Rivers hired a crane to uproot it, watched mutely as the crane slipped, sent the tree crashing through his roof...