Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Located atop a parched, rocky mountain some 40 miles south of Tucson, Ariz., the squat, rectangular building with the gaping hole in its sides and roof looks like a space-age barn. In fact, the strange structure is somewhat out of this world. Now in its final stage of testing, it is the prototype of a new generation of giant optical telescopes that could open fresh vistas on the heavens - and, by astronomy's standards, at bargain-basement prices...
...wood-oil burner heats the company building, which used to be a gas station. A set of solar collectors supplies hot water, and a windmill will create most of the electricity necessary to light the store. Insulation and roof windows cut down on the need for artificial heat and light...
First the Yankees used Graig Netttles's glovse to short circuit Los Angeles in Game 3. The came a whacky basepath controvesrsy taht supplied a key run adn led New York to victory in Game 4. Finally, in Sunday's fifth contest, the roof fell in on the Dodgers as New York sprayed 18 hilts around Yankee Stadium and Thurman Munson drove in five runs in a 12-2 rount...
...would pay the life-insurance benefit of a worker who died during the strike (they split it fifty-fifty, then settled their other differences as well). Herb Brown, the Atlantic City Press's Mr. Action, called in the city's most respected roofer to examine a shoddy roof job that a reader complained about, and found himself in the middle of a family squabble. The job had been done by the roofer's nephew. "You can quote me on this," the elder man told Brown, who did just that. "The kid is incompetent. He doesn...
Hrabosky fired one fastball past the swinging Jackson before the roof caved in. Last year's World Series hero delivered Hrabosky's second offering to the promised land just in front of the multicolored waterfalls in right-center field, scoring pinch runner Paul Blair and ex-Royal Piniella as well as himself...