Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Raise High the Roof Beam, Salinger...
...across the square when the earth trembled. Behind them the Hotel Macedonia swayed from side to side before tumbling its 180 bedrooms and their occupants into the street. The girls began running and bumped into terrified people pouring half-dressed from the houses. Showered by broken glass, dodging falling roof tiles, they were choked and blinded by a cloud of dust. When it cleared, they saw the airport bus half-submerged in debris...
...temperature soared over 90° in Montreal last week, the 500 delegates and visitors to the fourth Faith and Or der Conference met for their general sessions in the ovenlike atmosphere of McGill University's metal-covered winter stadium. Delegates called the meetings "chats under a hot tin roof...
...single-minded effort to get low-rent tenants out of his houses and high-rent tenants in, Rachman hired men to urinate in hallways, smash furniture, and once in Bayswater to remove the roof of a house and abandon the stubborn tenants to the mercy of wind and weather. In the underworld he got the name of "Polish Peter," and West Indians, who knew his power, called him "White Chief Rachman...
...live together in a borrowed loft. They are painfully in love and hopelessly beat. Brian is writing a book called Get Ready to Crawl. "I don't care who reads it," says Brian. "I just care what it says." Genie is a dancer. She practices on the roof with a plastic geranium for inspiration...