Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private home were attacked by 300 Los Angeles policemen armed with arrest warrants, search warrants, shotguns, AR-15 rifles, tear-gas grenades, satchel charges, one helicopter, 6-ft. steel battering rams, a National Guard armored personnel carrier, and a fire department "jet-ax" used to cut through the roof of burning buildings. The principal target was Panther headquarters, a two-story brown-and-white brick building at 41st Street and Central Avenue. There, the battle raged for four hours and 45 minutes...
Another witness was Petros Vlassis, a member of the far-left Lambrakis youth movement, one of the junta's special targets. After being beaten on the feet in the shower room on the roof of the Bouboulinas Street building where the tortures usually took place, he was forced to stand up. "They made me run around in a circle in that same torture chamber," recalled Vlassis. "They had moved the bench to one side a little, and I was in the middle of a circle made up of ten people. Each one of them held something-a stick...
...Mongol hut made of skins. The first yurt, built last Fall in the Radcliffe Yard, was displaced by the new Education School library. The present yurt is safely located near the corner of Garden St. and Appian Way and differs from the last yurt in having a sod-covered roof...
Police believe that the suspect hid in the library until after closing time on August 19, then went to the roof, climbed down the rope to a window, and broke into the Widener Room where the Bible is kept. He removed the Bible from its display case and was attempting to climb down the rope to the ground outside when he fell...
...spectacular cluster of airborne spheres originally proposed but ruled out by a congressional budget slash. But the design is still a spectacular achievement. From the air it may look like a king-size mattress pad, but from ground level the thing it most resembles is a moon crater roofed over with a shallow, translucent dome. The pavilion covers an oval area approximately the size of two football fields. Its solid, earth-filled walls slope as gently inward and upward as the lower slopes of Fujiyama. Halfway up, the solid earth gives way to an airy, translucent blister. Made of vinyl...