Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This hearing is adjourned subject to the call of the chair." At that, the roof went off. Two Republican subcommittee members, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Maryland...
...worst disaster ever to hit the state. In the words of a grand jury, the state government under Griffin was characterized by the "perfidious conduct of state officials heretofore inconceivable to the minds of citizens." Nearly two dozen people were charged with almost everything except stealing the roof off the Statehouse; among the convicted were a former member of the state board of corrections, a former state park director, and a former assistant state purchasing agent. Though one educated estimate placed the cost of corruption at $30 million. Griffin's comment was simply: "Nuts. Just plain nuts...
Dramatically Different. One design for a second house now making great strides in popularity throughout the U.S. is known, for obvious reasons, as the A-frame. Virtually nothing but a steep roof with glass at both ends, it is relatively easy to build and therefore economical. It is also versatile, as well as being dramatically different, both outside and in. But whatever the size or shape of his house-and whether he is tightening his budget or damning the expense-the contemporary owner of a second house usually expends as much care in its planning and construction as he would...
Taking his leave of the conference table, Paris-educated Chen slipped easily into the cocktail circuit, retired to the roof terrace of the Palais des Nations, where TIME'S Paris Correspondent Israel Shenker found him sipping champagne. A Red Chinese official talking to a U.S. newsman is such an unusual sight that diplomats and other reporters clustered around the pair. In the ensuing dialogue. Chen stuck to the familiar Peking line, but with a few-curves added...
Until they opened a museum in the summer of 1862, the burghers of Haarlem in The Netherlands never fully realized the extent of their riches. There had been paintings in various public buildings all over town, but now they were assembled under one roof, and the effect was dazzling. The museum was appropriately named for the great 17th century master Frans Hals, for it was his work that towered over everything else...