Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curtain snapped shut, 3,600,000 more Germans made their way West and heightened the crisis. The new arrivals were penniless, homeless and embittered. In the immediate postwar days, West Germans themselves were not much better off. The fierce competition between natives and "aliens" for jobs or even a roof created an explosive climate of mutual recrimination. It seemed as if the shaky new democracy, digging out of the wreckage of Hitler's Reich, could scarcely survive the human avalanche...
FICTION 1. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (1, last week) 2. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (8) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
...tried to put a forward-facing third seat in the rear of their Special and F85 station wagons, the seat wound up perched on top of the rear axle-up so high that there was not headroom enough for a midget. General Motors' solution: raising half of the roof into a vista dome, a move that gives Buick and Oldsmobile the distinction of having the first station wagons styled like a Scenicruiser Greyhound...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger...
...most of his sojourn upon earth, man built his houses, halls, castles and temples the way a child uses a set of building blocks-the walls support the roof. The age of the skyscraper demanded new methods and materials...