Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cave, but not before he has arranged for delivery of a tape recorder and enough food to satisfy a hillside full of hungry sightseers. His report, when he squirms out. ensures that the gawkers will come: Jasper is pinned down by a boulder. As rescuers start drilling to the roof of the cave, Isaac spiels out a professionally emotional account into his tape recorder and fires it off to a radio station.* Soon the hillside is humming like a camp meeting and hurrahing like a circus. The food concession Isaac has arranged is selling all the barbecue it can fork...
...house, which has only a few parts made of wood or Masonite, accounts for 30% of all National's sales, and Price expects it to hit 70% by 1960. He hopes to make it even more attractive with a 1960 model that has an exterior of aluminum, including roof, doors, window frames and exterior trim. He paints his aluminum houses with the same shiny baked enamel used on automobiles. (it lasts three or four times longer than ordinary house paints), this year will use a flat, baked Lucite finish especially developed for him by Du Pont. Says...
...detectives parked their squad car up against the patio wall, climbed on the roof, .jumped over the wall. When they came out, they reported: "What we have seen is not of the 20th century...
Strangers at a Wedding. Behind the dome is the glass pavilion, a sprawling (50,000 sq. ft.) building of glass and steel with an accordion-pleated aluminum roof. It is the cultural center of the exposition, with everything from a Stuart portrait of Washington to the latest model kitchen. Scrutinizing the latest American modes, the Russian women seemed most impressed by the spectacular wedding sequence. "We used to have that long ago," said one wistful spectator. "But not any more...
...quantitative liberalism of the '30s, we need now a 'qualitative liberalism,' dedicated to bettering the quality of people's lives and opportunities. We can now count the fight for the necessities of living-a job, a square meal, a suit of clothes, a roof...