Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger...
...main compound, surrounded by an ugly ten-foot cement-block wall, is composed of three villas. Khrushchev's is designed in Soviet-modern, a boxlike, sandstone, two-story building topped with a roof-garden penthouse reached by an outside elevator. A huge porch is enclosed by glass on two sides and opens to the sea. Near by is a similar two-story villa for servants and security men. The third building is a recreation house that erupts in a variety of verandas, terraces and wall-to-wall windows. Attached to the back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental...
...might be a ditchdigger today. He used to dig holes for fun on his father's farm in Tennessee. "I left holes all over the farm," he says. "I don't know why I did it. I just had this urge." Then he found an old roof top TV aerial and, using it as a sort of vaulting pole, began to go up instead of down. One leap led to another, and in 1959 he went to Northeast Louisiana State College on a pole-vaulting scholarship (room, board, tuition, $20 a month for "laundry...
...Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger...
...raining hard on Wednesday when the trial resumed; some water began to leak through the roof and drip down next to the defense attorney's table. The little wizened bailiff brought a spittoon over to catch the increasing flow of drops...