Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attended the dinner. "He tried to get a cheer out of them by praising Governor Rockefeller. They were dead. He tried again with Javits. Again they were dead. Then he started building up Keating, and the 1,000 people in that crowd just about brought the roof down...
...great credit of Mr. Arunah Brady be it said that he was able to convey much of its pity and terror. This scene has everything. She is not mad; on the contrary, she is the one person sane. Seeress, she can see the crimes already wreaked under that roof, and foresee the two about to follow, the murder of Agamemnon and of herself. Her speeches begin with little more than unintelligible bird-like cries of mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque to the listeners ... The Queen reappears to order her indoors. Cassandra stands still, rapt...
...Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, a veteran labor lawyer and an artist at mediation. Bustling about the nation, Goldberg helped settle several strikes, including even the one at the Metropolitan Opera. But Goldberg failed in the last dispute he tried to mediate, and there is some speculation that the whole roof was about to cave in on his head when he departed for the Supreme Court...
...involved with high politics." The Review ignored only what it considered trivial "except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation." Among the reputations it sought to deflate: John Updike's The Centaur ("a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features"); J. D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (he "deals with the emotions and problems of adolescence, and it is no great slight to him to say that he has not yet advanced beyond them"); Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (an "unconvincing mixture of lively dialogue and incongruous tricks...
...young Ford executive named Charles E. Beck, now 41, whose assignment was to find companies for Ford to acquire. Beck saw Philco as a company without the money to capitalize on opportunities, but with an enviable record of scientific development: the first TV set that would operate without a roof aerial in 80% of U.S. homes, the first horizontal freezer compartment in the top of a refrigerator, the hermetically sealed compressor system for room air conditioners that has made possible today's compact air conditioners. Ford followed Beck's advice to buy Philco, put Beck in as president...