Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emboldened by recent guerrilla successes, they dared to attack the U.S. ambassador himself right in the capital of Saigon. Only nine weeks at his new post, Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. was riding to his official residence for lunch when two men hurled a homemade hand grenade onto the roof of his car, fled on a motorcycle as Nolting's bodyguard pumped three shots in their direction. Since the bomb was a dud, Nolting went home to lunch unharmed...
Only once did he sound any kind of tocsin. Under the same roof where another Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, was martyred in 1170 to preserve his church's integrity, Ramsey served notice on the state that he would "ask for a greater freedom in the ordering and in the urgent revising of our forms of worship." In 1928 the House of Commons rejected the established church's request for permission to make changes in its liturgy in order to enforce more liturgical discipline upon clerics whose services ranged from quasi-Roman to semi-Congregational, according...
...sister, Anne Ford, 18. Paris Decorator Jacques Frank spent more than a year turning the Fords' Grosse Pointe Farms estate into a Versailles-like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion and kept a mop-and-bucket brigade of 70 swabbing through the night -could douse the enthusiasm of the stag line, as Anne's photograph album of her coming-out will forever record...
...newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
...upgrade to a bigger and better house. "Quality" houses are selling well, but crackerboxes in far-out neighborhoods are slow indeed to move. Says President Jack Hoffman of Chicago's F & S Construction Co.: "The shelter mar ket has disappeared. The days when you could simply sell a roof to put over someone's head are finished...