Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he climbed through a skylight to the roof of the small stone building and began firing methodically at pedestrians near a children's play area. An 80-year-old man was wounded twice in the back; nannies shielded children with their bodies. About 100 police swarmed around the toilets and exchanged gunfire with Angelof for an hour. Two cops were wounded superficially before a patrolman climbed a tree behind Angelof and brought him down with two shots from his service revolver. Two other officers leaped onto the roof and poured ten more rounds into...
...diversify in depth by acquiring the Midwestern-based Osco chain of drugstores and Boston's Turn-Style discount stores. Under Jewel, Osco has grown from 30 stores to 133, Turn-Style from four stores to nine. A growing number of these outlets now are situated under the same roof as grocery operations, providing shoppers with one-stop service for everything from canned peas to cameras, drug prescriptions to complete wardrobes...
...real changes began a decade ago with the gradual easing of industry censorship. Although the deviate references in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) were cooled down considerably for the screen, two years later his Suddenly Last Summer was filmed with explicit references to pederasty. In the early '60s, the central characters in both Advise and Consent and The Best Man had their political careers ruined by past homosexual experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt...
...answer to P.T. Barnum, William Zeckendorf and Clint Murchison-the developer extraordinary whose projects always seem to start with a thud, then prosper with a vengeance. His Astrodome, for example. Hailed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," the air-conditioned stadium began with a clear plastic roof. Baseball players lost fly balls in the glare, so the dome was painted. Then sunlight could not reach the grass, which withered, so artificial turf was laid down. Now everybody is happy...
...November the United States took the offensive against the Germans in Africa, penetrating Oran and pushing Rommel's desert rats before them. On the 23rd, the Crimson lost to Yale, 7-3. Five days later the roof of Boston's Coconut Grove restaurant came crashing down in flames on its hundreds of screaming victims. Five Harvard undergraduates died. But by now Harvard's seniors had little attention to spare for local news. America had tasted blood in North Africa, and beginning in late November thirty members of the class of '43 dropped out of Harvard each week...