Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While that statement drew enthusiastic applause from the 5,000 delegates to the Bureau's annual convention in Philadelphia, Shuman raised the roof with his hardest-hitting attack yet on the role of Government in agriculture. "No self-respecting farmer wants to become a member of a permanently subsidized peasantry," he stormed, but "farmers already are far down the road in their dependence on Government payments for their livelihood." Just how far, Shuman made plain. Nearly 20% of this year's $12 billion in net farm income, or about $2.1 billion, he said, came in the form...
...already have tickets for Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof, forget it--though you might be able to get seats for next Christmas...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. One of the most remarkably versatile talents of the contemporary stage, Zero Mostel breathes nostalgic life into this pleasant, poignant musical comedy derived from Sholom Aleichem's tales of Tevye and his five daughters...
...partisan groups in the presidential campaign. Thousands of students responded by staging a protest that trapped a police car summoned to arrest a defiant recruiter. While police and their prisoner huddled for 32 hours inside the patrol car, students and off-campus agitators battered it, rocked it, used the roof as a speaker's rostrum. Stunned, the university vacillated over its next move, then suspended eight ringleaders of the demonstration...
...They didn't do anything on the property; they just let it go to hell." Redgate said yesterday. "If the roof leaked, they let it leak..... Once one person moved out, they never intended to rent his apartment again...