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Word: roof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the roof of a Fort Worth building began to cave in beneath his feet, the first thing Building Wrecker Walter J. Piper did was to throw away his crow bar. The act came within a quarter of an inch of taking his life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: Pluck, Luck & Skill | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof of Williams' mouth, then to the base of his skull, coming to a halt beyond the pituitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: A Head Full of Lead | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front of a fire, under an old dishpan on top of a range, on a piece of foil under a piece of corrugated-tin roof, and the product was eaten with relish by all at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1968 | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...have red flags flying from the roof. I explain to a cop on the sidewalk below that these stand for revolution, not for Communism. He says yes, he remembers reading something about that...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...girl and myself are despatched to get a bow. We go to the roof of the Barnard Library where the phys. ed. archery range is. We are in the midst of discovering how incredibly locked the cabinet is when a guard comes out on the roof. We crouch. He walks right past us. It would be just like TV except that I am so preoccupied with it being just like TV. After ten minutes he finds us. The girl laughs coyly and alleges that oh, we just came up to spend the night. I am rather taken with the idea...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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