Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hieu says the psychological torture far surpassed the physical discomforts. From 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. prisoners listened to government broadcasts over loudspeakers mounted on the prison roof. At the direction of prison officials, the captives wrote down reasons to support the government. "The most terrible torture was the torture of the spirit and the will," Hieu says...
...kind of a lucky shot," Bethel said after the game. "It caught the roof...
...high-yielding Treasury bills until the recession bites. Even then, the bulls may not let out a full-throated roar. Warns Pechman: "The fact that we are suggesting that late this year may be a time to buy equities does not mean that equity prices will go through the roof." But, says Beryl Sprinkel, "the cheapest assets in this world today are U.S. stocks...
...England, the lashing, defiant sound of the Clash has scored well on the charts. Their songs drive hard and mean business. Just the titles give a taste of the action: Last Gang in Town, Guns on the Roof, Drug-Stabbing Time. In the U.S., air play is scarce. Easy enough to figure that stations programmed for the lulling sounds of California rock or the dull throb of disco might not take to a Clash tune like Tommy Gun. There is even some civic concern about violence at the concerts, to which Strummer replies, "There's as much violence...
Canaday's leakage problems began shortly after construction in 1975, Carl Meinhart of the Ehrenkrantz Group, architects of Canaday, said yesterday. "At that time we had to add more joints to adjust to the elasticity of the metal, he said. The roof may still need more joints, he added...