Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burns let a wrist shot fly from the circle to Gaudet's right. The Big Green netminder made the save somewhere in his pads, losing sight of the puck for a few moments, unsure whether he had it. When he saw that he did, he looked to the roof of Bright Center as if to express his thanks. But last night Bob Gaudet didn't need any divine help. All he needed was a glove and a stick...
...when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under a mountain of stone. The bleeding figure of a town official landed at the priest's feet. "Lord have mercy on me," the man whispered, and then died...
Animator Walter Lantz and his bride Gracie did not get much sleep on their 1941 honeymoon. Explains Walter, now 80: "It was this darned woodpecker. He made a terrible racket and ruined the roof of our cottage." Unable to silence the pest, Lantz made him immortal-by introducing the creature into one of his Andy Panda cartoons. "Universal Studios told me I ought to have my head examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains...
Combining the much improved play of the defensive unit, a strong game from netminder Wade Lau and excellent penalty-killing, the icemen flew past Boston University, 5-2, in their home opener raising their ECAC record to 2-1 and their spirits to the roof of Bright Center...
...Court where she shares a flat with three other girls. One morning last week Diana climbed into her red Mini Metro, only to have a roaring posse of press cars take off after her. She burst into tears. Later, the contrite paparazzi slipped a note through the sun roof of her car. The message: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies...