Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this afternoon, editors of both publications will gather on the steps of the 'Poon building to replace the Ibis upon the new copper and slate roof...
...night fell on Mishmar Ayalon, a frontier settlement which stretches to the Jordan wire, 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem, a tired, unshaven man, coated with the dirt of the field, picked up his Sten gun and climbed to the roof of his house. The village generator, silent all day to save fuel, started to put-put, and 73 floodlights splashed light across the rocky fields. So began another night in the siege without respite that has been going on for five years...
...roof peered towards the rude enclosure where the village's sheep were penned. He was the shepherd of Mishmar Ayalon, and the Sten gun his crook. Since 1951, six of Mishmar Ayalon's men had been killed by bullets out of the night. The villagers took to arms and appointed as their captain Shmuel Schiff, a wiry youth with a hussar mustache...
What the four had in common was honesty and joy in life. Otherwise, they were as different as artists can be. Albert Pinkham Ryder best expressed their common joy when he remarked that "the artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance." Thomas Eakins expressed their straightforwardness while teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. For insisting on using nude models in class, he was forced to resign. (Later, in one of his most famed paintings of a nude-overleaf-Eakins soberly included the chaperone...
...College Laws of 1734 levied a five shilling fine for "Fighting; lying; drunkeness; tumultuous and indecent noises; and going on roof of old Harvard or cutting lead from same." The penalty was ten shillings for "Profane cursing and swearing; playing cards or dice; neglecting anaysis of scripture; walking or other disturbances on the Sabbath; and firing gun or pistol in Yard...