Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road was patched and made the linchpin of a hold area extending for more than a mile on either side. In Phumy itself, U.S. Army medics opened health stations, government teachers repossessed the schools, workers began slapping a new aluminum roof on the market. With a donated U.S.-made drill, the government began sinking fresh-water wells (traditionally, the peasants have trapped rain water in great earthenware crocks, or drawn water from filthy canals). Inhabitants flocked back to the village in droves, and within a week the streets swarmed with mobs of children, eagerly accepting Life Savers from U.S. advisers...
...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
...suspect that the structure was a primitive textile factory full of inflammable weaving materials. When his diggers removed the dirt near by, they found the regular streets of a carefully planned city with a community bakery. The dwellings had mud-brick walls and central columns to support the wooden roof beams. Mixed in the debris were many homely objects of ancient daily life-bowls, flasks, cooking pots, primitive safety pins, figurines, cosmetic palettes...
...mistress. Neither seems particularly surprised, for, as Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor, ridiculous man has what amounts to a personal harem, except that neither woman will have anything to do with...
...result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions. The 650 youngsters who attend Saigon's American school were transported in Navy buses with steel-mesh window guards, and with armed Navy enlisted men riding shotgun. MPs patrolled the school grounds and roof with Armalite and M-14 rifles held in raised position. Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy and other key U.S. installations...