Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical library-one of the fund drive's major goals-will bring together under the same roof the collections of the overcrowded Harvard Medical Library and the Boston Medical Library. The combined collection will be the second largest of its kind in the nation...
...about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide log rose up the chimney, removed all chance of a visit from Santa by setting fire to the wood-shingled roof. Before the Packards (plus some 40 volunteer firemen) quenched the blaze; damage from the flames, axes and water amounted to about $20,000. But in the best Early American tradition, the Packards retrieved their Christmas present packages, opened them next day in their Federalist garage apartment...
...Roof. Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica finds a subtler way of saying that the sun in sunny Italy shines only on the rich (TIME...
Thayer cites the case of a loth century ambassador named Liudprand. who represented the Holy Roman Emperor in Constantinople and in the process was insulted, nearly starved, and quartered in a house with a leaking roof, which also lodged several unfriendly lions. Nearly 1,000 years later, in 1934, when U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt set up the first post-revolution U.S. embassy in Moscow, he was not troubled by lions, but otherwise, suggests Thayer, he got equivalent treatment...