Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, 24 hours before the allotted deadline, the grinning Russians appeared at Sandkrug Bridge in a red-painted civilian bus with a bilious, pea-green roof. As the bus passed through without incident, the ruckus subsided. Far from solution, however, was the chronic indecision among the Allies, who on a relatively minor issue took two weeks to:1) agree that there was a problem, 2) decide to do something about...
...bank: the little Wells Fargo branch gracing the plaza of the glassy, curtain-walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife." A unique marriage of roundness to function...
...body out of the car. Several came up and just stared. All the cliches came true: the dead man's gun was gripped hard between his hands, and so I had to pry open his fingers one by one. Then the gun was jammed against the car roof. He was terribly heavy, as dead bodies are supposed to be. When I finally managed to drag him out, the road was under fire. The ambulance driver then helped me lift the corpse onto a stretcher and we put it into the ambulance...
...palace that Architects Benjamin Brown and Spero Daltas designed for the Shah's younger sister, Fatemeh, is walled in travertine, teakwood and glass, and alive with water and sunlight. But the most striking feature is the roof. Columns formed by eight 2-in. steel tubes rise and fan out to support octagonal canopies of glazed brick, interspersed here and there with clear glass skylights...
Edward Estlin Cummings' father, a Congregational minister, shocked his staid parishioners in Boston's Old South Church one Sunday by crying from the pulpit: "The Kingdom of Heaven is no spiritual roof garden: it's inside...