Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine, and the East German radio even managed to find a propaganda issue-capitalist callousness. Meanwhile, the rescue work continued. The drill had to work slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer rescue workers. Fifty-seven minutes later, all eleven were miraculously out, weak...
...next architect to catch Griswold's eye was the late Eero Saarinen, Yale '34. Commissioned to do simply a hockey rink, Saarinen achieved a daring structure whose wooden roof is slung from a single humpbacked reinforced concrete spine, so that inside there are no pillars to block the view. Saarinen spent far more than the money that had been budgeted for the project, but the hockey rink so pleased critics and trustees alike that Saarinen subsequently was put to drawing up a master development plan for Yale. Along the line he won a commission close...
...barelegged beauties on skates swirled in synchronized precision over the ice rink in Indianapolis' State Fairgrounds Coliseum. They wore sequined leotards and yellow-feathered headdresses, and they dipped and swooped together to the ricky-tick tempo of an 18-piece band playing Dixieland. Fireworks sparked near the roof girders, and a family-trade crowd of 4,320 oohed and aahed. This was the finale of the Holiday on Ice show's first night in Indianapolis-a Mardi Gras production number...
...President Hubert Maga excitedly telephoned military headquarters to report that his residence was being shelled. He soon went back to sleep. As it turned out, the tough, jolly, former schoolteacher had been aroused by the clatter of windblown coconuts pelting down on the mansion's tin roof...
...Parkinson," pipes Drinkwater, boasting that there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary to Mexico City, the entire executive crew, only 28 people, is under one roof at the Los Angeles airport. The boss expects every employee to be "an amateur cost accountant." Drinkwater works up to 15 hours on some days but manages to knock off for three afternoons of golf a week...