Word: roof
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Under One Roof. Johnson also announced that responsibility for setting oil policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum...
...Security First National Bank branch in Los Angeles' International Airport Center looks as gay as a country club. The round pavilion with glass walls and a cookie-cutter roof juts out from a circular pedestal, and might be overlooking the swimming pool and the 18th hole instead of the corner of Century Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue. But by some medieval quirk, Welton Becket & Associates has designed the entrances as bridges over a moat...
...heart of Munich was struck by a fire-bomb raid. The incendiaries that crashed through the 160-ft.-high roof of the National-theater ignited a fire that burned for three days, melting the crystal chandeliers, blackening what remained of the ornate bas-reliefs and frescoes, consuming even the ranks of ivory chairs. For nearly two decades, the ruins of the 125-year-old home of the Bavarian State Opera stood as a grim souvenir of the war, a macabre memorial to its own glorious past...
...looks like a combination fallout shelter, Indian hut and lion's den. It is embedded in a hillside, and the only straight lines in it are the floors. The roof on one level is made of grey, knobby lead, on another level it is covered by two feet of earth and undulating lawn. Doors and windows are odd-shaped holes in the thick, earth-colored walls...
...Then the roof fell in. Brown took to the airways, and marched down the field, finally scoring on a short buck. With fumbles and interceptions plaguing the Yardlings, Brown got possession of the ball and took the lead on a 30-yard pass play in the waning moments of the antepenultimate stanza...