Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probes into India, according to this theory, were primarily designed to seal off rebellious Tibet from outside influences, specifically to prevent any more Tibetans from escaping to India and to exclude the Indian pilgrims and traders who have long been the chief source of news from the Roof of the World. In the process, Peking was also reinforcing its claim to fringe areas of India that Chinese maps have for many years shown as part of China...
...with water lilies. Employees will cross the pond on slender concrete ramps on their way to work; in moments of leisure they can sit or stroll beside it beneath the shadowed arcade provided by the overhanging second floor. A glass skylight lined with aluminum ribbing protrudes from the concrete roof, projects a variety of light patterns on the inner court below...
...audiences who associate De Sica with some of Italy's greatest postwar protest films (The Bicycle Thief, Shoeshine, Umberto D. and The Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that...
...scientists seen his credentials? In Indianapolis, for instance, where everything from klaxon horns to electric cords had been used to keep starlings from roosting at the U.S. courthouse and post office building, the bird man turned up last January. He spent a few hours on the courthouse roof, dangling what seemed to be a silver rope over the ledges and sills. Two days later there were new colonies of starlings in the park across the street, but not one on the premises of the courthouse. What's more, they have not returned...
...problem remains that of making himself acceptable to girls with developing measurements. Admits Dobie: "It used to make me pretty jumpy when a girl started getting her bust." Most of the young ladies live next door in a bad real estate buy that happens to be the only flat-roofed house in Dobie's part of Connecticut. As the gulls fly in from the Sound to rain clams on the roof, the families keep moving out, and turnover produces such attractions as Red Knees Baker, Rotten Girl Spencer, and Elizabeth Barrett Schultz...