Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine-but in style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls off the edge, lands sitting on a pig, rides wildly off into the sunset...
...Emperor was the descendant of the gods who had created Japan, the religion was made a patriotic duty for all Japanese by the country's prewar nationalistic leaders. Shrines received state support, and priests became government officials. The ancient Shinto slogan, Hakko ichiu, meaning "the world under one roof." became the doctrinal justification for Japan's aggressive expansion...
...roof fell in on Shinto after the war. On Dec. 15. 1945, General Douglas MacArthur's occupation government cut all ties between Shinto and the state, forbade teaching of its doctrines in public schools. On New Year's Day 1946. Emperor Hirohito publicly told his people that the story of his descent from the gods was only "myth and legend." In the shock that followed disestablishment, priests cast off their symbolic white robes to become black marketeers; shrines rented out space to small businesses, or served as places of assignation for prostitutes...
...Unhealthy Roof. On the ground, the battle in Elisabethville seesawed inconclusively. One minute, the streets were full; next minute, people were scattering in all directions at the sound of incoming shells or a long, looping machine-gun burst from a distant weapon. Often a barrage caught Katanga's loyal whites of the home guard in mid-Scotch or mid-meal at an Elisabethville bistro. "Ah, it is time to go," shrugged one 24-year-old as the crump of nearby gunfire sent the lunchtime customers to the floor at one restaurant. Shouldering his rifle, he left in the direction...
...mortar, walked down a street in the center of town, set up their weapon in a used-car lot; then, casually, they began bombarding the U.N. office building five blocks away. The fire of little, informal squads like this one was remarkably accurate-they were getting instructions from the roof of the tallest building in town, the new hospital, which the U.N. later captured...