Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom." See THEATER, Unwrapping Mummies...
...guesses later, too much despair). He returns to his hotel room, where his wife has been gabbling on the phone to her mother, and shoots himself through the head. Reasons for the cryptic suicide were suggested in a superb story written seven years later, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, in which Seymour's wedding day is recalled; it shows a sensitive, gentle, somewhat weak man about to tie himself to a mass of hair nets, deodorant bottles and parroted psychiatric untruths...
...Goulart's brother-in-law, blocked the harbor in Porto Alegre, barricaded the streets, and began recruiting rawhide-tough cowboys into "Committees of Democratic Resistance." He called up the state militia, mobilized police, had trenches dug, surrounded his palace with barbed wire and put machine guns on the roof. But more important than all these precautions, he won the solid support of General M. Jose Machado Lopes, commander of the well-equipped, 35,000-man Third Army garrisoned in the state. Cried Brizzola: "We are not going to fire the first shot, but you may be sure we will...
Grosvenor Square. To many critics, the compromise failed. Nevertheless, there was always in Saarinen's designs-from his famous "womb" chair to the soaring, winged, 6,000-ton concrete roof of his TWA terminal at Idlewild to his new Dulles International Airport at Chantilly, Va., with its moving waiting room-a daring, a willingness to experiment with form that few of his contemporaries had. "An architect must have a combination of sensitivity and crust," he said, and he had both...
...much as 13 inches longer than last year's models, and have been adorned with an upright grille similar to that of the Mercedes Benz (which S.P. markets in the U.S.). On the restyled Hawk. S.P. designers have also used the Mercedes look up front and a roof that borrows some of the thunder from Ford's Thunderbird. Though S.P. has dipped an estimated $10.3 million into the red so far this year. Egbert reports that dealers' orders for the 1962 models are running 20% ahead of last year...