Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor the "Rambam,"* Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs last year decided to spruce up the tomb. Plans included a concrete roof and a fence. But when a bulldozer started digging the foundations, workers found bones from other old graves near by. Experts were not sure whether they were remains of Jews, Moslems or Crusaders, and Tiberias' rabbis ordered them buried in unhallowed ground...
...they approached the Brink's building, they looked for a signal from the lookout on the roof of a Prince Street building. He previously had arrived in a stolen Ford sedan. After receiving the go-ahead signal, seven members of the gang left the truck and walked through a playground to the Prince Street entrance of Brink's. Using the outside door key they previously had obtained, the men quickly entered and donned the masks." Big Tony Pino and his driver remained outside in the truck, with the motor idling...
...come with him. The dark, wind-blown mansion to which Xavier is taken is a spiritual isolation ward rife with viciousness. There is an ugly, snot-nosed, unwanted boy of nine. There is a vapid secretary-governess who purrs around Xavier like a cat on a hot tiled roof. There is the self-centered stepmother-in-law, a grande dame sans merci...
...depends heavily on under the line meanings. Once a writer accepts changes, he went on, he has an obligation not to undermine the directors choice. He thought that Tennesse Williams had been twice mistaken in printing his alternate form of the third act for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...Then the roof fell in. At the five-minute mark, the Big Green, sparked by sophomore Dave Carruthers' long sets and the jump shots of Herb Markman, had pulled away to an eight-point lead, 12 to 4. By halftime Dartmouth had stretched its margin to eleven points, leading by a score...