Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formidable, for out of ancient hates and modern misgivings the diplomats had to design an arrangement strong enough to withstand the Russians, flexible enough to let the British and Americans stand half in and half out, and roomy enough for Frenchmen and Germans to live peaceably under the same roof...
Exact costs on much of the repair work will not be known until the roof work is done, Reynolds said. Damage to most of the 150 buildings is not expected to be more than several hundred dollars each, Roberts estimated. Valuation of tree losses will depend largely on who makes the personal assessment...
...duke also did well enough by himself to purchase a fine old château on the banks of the Loire 80 miles south of Paris. During its long history and frequent alterations, Château Sully-sur-Loire, as it came to be known, lent its sheltering roof to the entertainment of nine Kings of France, as well as to Voltaire, the Marquis de Lafayette, Cardinal Mazarin and Joan of Arc. In recent times 20,000 tourists a year have trooped through...
...Mexico's Miguel Angel, 25. Badly injured in May by a horn that pierced the roof of his mouth and fractured his brain pan, he came gallantly back early this month "with the taste of the horn in his mouth" to win a phenomenal triumph. Another newcomer is Peru's Indian-featured Umberto Valle, 23, who gave the year's finest single display of valor. Gored and tossed high in the air, he fought loose from the infirmary attendants who were carrying him away and killed his bull...
Many adolescent girls who have not been adequately taught associate menstruation with injury-and this idea is perpetuated, say Drs. Branch and Reiser, by such colloquialisms as "falling off the roof." Impressed by mothers with "the piteous state of women," many girls still regard the onset of menstruation as "the entrance into a periodic House of Horrors, the only exit being the menopause...