Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flock from their thatched houses. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden," he intoned in a deep bass, "and I will give you rest." About 125 villagers, most of them harijan (untouchable) converts, took shelter. When winds ranging up to 100 m.p.h. ripped off the roof, the walls crumbled and entombed the congregation; all were found dead the next day. Rosaiah, the village agnostic who lost his wife and two children, had not gone to the church. "It was God that failed," he moaned...
...other Terrier co-captain, Cliff Whalen (158 lbs.), edged senior Jim Corcoran for the third straight year, 8-5. In the next match, Franklin's surprising win apparently put the Crimson in the driver's seat, but that was before the roof fell...
...blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King's College Hospital Medical School. When the troops arrived 15 minutes later, after taking one wrong turn, their low-pressure pumps failed to hose water as high as the third floor; flames were already licking at the roof. Worse, ladders extended only to the second floor. Finally deciding to fight the blaze from above, the soldiers climbed to the roof and managed to extinguish the flames after a 90-minute battle. Said an experienced fireman disgustedly watching the amateurish operation: "We could have done it in ten minutes...
Robert van Tonder, 54, is a 14th generation Afrikaner whose Danish ancestors arrived in the New Cape colony in 1700. He lives with his second wife and his six children in a rambling, thatched-roof farmhouse on a 100-acre homestead 20 miles west of Johannesburg. It is a peaceful countryside of rolling brown hills, white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly...
...civic-minded, wealthy businessman who quickly returned the gift. Why does he do it? Cannon believes that "the quest for money and acquisitions can be very self-destructive." So he and his wife Princetta give away as much as they can, while living in a house with a leaky roof and driving a battered 1963 Chevy...