Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became successful in business or homemaking. In time they presented Lavina with 34 grandchildren. Husband Jens died ten years ago, but Lavina kept busy. Two years ago, although she was already painfully crippled with arthritis and had to get around on crutches, she painted her house and tarred the roof. Last week Lavina, 75, badly crippled but plucky as ever, was named Mother of the Year by the American Mothers Committee, Inc. At first she was reluctant to enter her name. "Motherhood," she said sternly, "is not a competitive event." But when she won the title, Lavina was speechless...
...Imam suddenly burst out of the palace gates flourishing a long scimitar. Before the sentries could get over their shock, he had slashed two of them dead, scrambled back into the palace. Exchanging the sword for a submachine gun, he led his 150 guards onto the roof of the palace and began a direct attack on the rebels. At the end of 28 hours, with 23 rebels and one palace guard dead, Colonel Ahmed Thalaya gave up. Abdullah, guarded by heavily armed slaves, taken for a ride in a jeep in the direction of the rock dungeon of Hajja...
Best American Play: Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which nosed out William Inge's Bus Stop by one vote...
...Moslem conquest of Hindustan), the Mogul Emperor Akbar massacred 30,000 Rajput retainers, but failed to arrest the flight of the Rajput's famed armorers. With their families they followed their own Prince Pratap Singh into the forests, and took a solemn oath never to sleep under a roof or on a bed until Chitor was reconquered...
...became a tribe of wandering blacksmiths called the Gadia Lohars, big, fork-bearded men in pink turbans, women wearing silver bangles and big silver nose rings, and untouchables worshiping the smallpox goddess, Sheetala. Without quite knowing why, they still observe their ancient vow: never do they sleep under a roof, but live in carts, wherein children are born and the old die, in which their beds, or charpais, are always upside down. Instead of swords and spears, they make axes and sickles, but in recent years their ancient craft products, overwhelmed by a flood of cheap manufactured tools, have been...