Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waving, confetti streaming, cannons booming, and thousands of broadly smiling Washingtonians on official holiday (their second in as many weeks) crowding the elm-lined length of Pennsylvania Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward Elgar while live television cameras...
Under the Overpass. The story was the same wherever the twisters struck. Near Toledo, Ohio, a tornado picked up one family's car and hurled it into a creek, killing two small boys and injuring their parents. A few yards away, it ripped the roof from a two-story house, leaving the occupants untouched. A truck driver tried to find shelter beneath an overpass, but the twister scooped him out and turned his truck over...
Along the Toledo-Detroit expressway, four people were killed and eight others injured when the bus in which they were riding was spun over onto its roof. The tornado charged into a small housing development, flattened 25 homes, killed six people...
...Fire Department was philosophical. "We could see it was some sort of steam coming off the roof. The Harvard Square Theatre's incinerator did the same thing the other night. People said, 'Oh my heavens!' and then started calling up like mad. We learn, to absorb the complaints...
...William James Center for the Behavioral Sciences, the problem was analyzed very carefully: "They were testing the air conditioning, and the steam from the roof vent condensed and looked like smoke. The red glow from the airplane warning light on the roof colored the steam. They're still testing the air conditioning and we're still freezing...