Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people might long for a life in Hawaii. Bette was determined to get away, and in 1965 she did, arriving in Manhattan with the intention of becoming an actress. For her it was easier to make it as a singer, however. She joined the chorus of Fiddler on the Roof and eventually moved up to play Tzeitel, Tevye's eldest daughter. When she left Fiddler, she did a cabaret act at the Improvisation club and, a short while later, at the gay Continental Baths. That is where the Divine Miss M, as she called herself, was born; the primarily...
...recent "Thermoscan" show at Mamaroneck High School in New York, 2,300 house owners showed up over a two-day period to see aerial photographs of their neighborhoods taken by Con Ed with heat-sensitive cameras. A black roof indicated little heat loss; light gray showed that insulation was needed. Suppliers of thermal glass and insulation materials report strong sales across the country, although high interest rates have kept down new construction. Low-interest or no-interest loans for weatherizing are sometimes available through utilities. Along with how-to-do pamphlets like In the Bank ... or Up the Chimney...
With the Marines standing guard over the hatch, two groups of women went out onto the roof, then some men, then some more women. A burst of fresh air suddenly hit me; very cold, very fresh. There was a strange glow around the edges of the roof from the fire that was consuming the building beneath us. The Marines warned us in whispers: "Stay down! Stay down!" They could not be sure there were not still rioters somewhere on the roof...
...more people came up from the vault, we gathered in knots for the move across the roof to a second ladder that went to the ground. The Marines led us over the side. "I'm sorry we have to take you through a little smoke here," one of them said to me. This part of the building was blazing from both sides, and smoke hung over everything. I kept thinking that the roof had to collapse soon-any minute...
...presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such ads were enticing children to "surreptitiously" sneak cereals into Mom's shopping cart. Washington wags quipped that the FTC would soon ban peanut butter because it stuck to the roof of the mouth...