Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books that Marx carries everywhere, studies in idle moments. For an hour, three or four times a week, he dons sneakers, a grey sweat suit and a Mother Hubbard bonnet that ties under his chin. With a black book in hand, he trots briskly around his driveway or the roof of his office building on lower Fifth Avenue as he memorizes new words. "After a stiff workout," says a friend, "Lou's breath comes in polysyllables...
Last week, as Citroën displayed a radically new model in its showrooms, it made France's biggest auto news in years. Nicknamed the "Goddess," it has a long, duckbilled front reminiscent of the 1953 Studebaker, a plastic roof and half a dozen mechanical improvements, e.g., hydropneumatic suspension to keep the car on a constant level. The four-cylinder, 75-h.p. engine does 25 miles to the gallon and can get the Goddess up to 87 m.p.h...
Electric fans and extra heat had helped the Union's plaster to dry well, so that damage was not so great as it might have been. In particular the high, fancy ceiling of the main dining room remained perfectly intact. But repairs to roof timbers, upstairs walls, and furnishings will still bring the cost of the fire up to $15,000, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
...soon as the fire trucks had left Thursday, Buildings and Grounds men were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing will begin on Monday, Roberts said. Workmen will also begin re-plastering walls at the time, but will have to wait until the present plaster dries thoroughly before doing any painting, he added...
Roberts confirmed that a roof repairman from his own department had started the fire. The worker was welding drainpipe metal and overheated his torch, so that the wooden supports underneath the roof began to burn, the Superintendent explained...