Word: roof
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Frank W. Snepp III was one of the last Americans to be evacuated by helicopter from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon in the frantic hours before the city's fall on April 30, 1975. Snepp, then 31 and a senior analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, with 4½ years experience in Viet Nam, thought the agency's withdrawal planning had been shockingly inept, particularly in that hundreds of local CIA collaborators were simply left behind to meet whatever fate awaited them. After he returned to Washington, where he was awarded the agency...
...Wall boosts the Floyd through the roof...
...Maria that is quite affecting. Marshall's handsome Tony is more wood than flame, and the incendiary performance is given by Debbie Allen as Bernardo's girlfriend Anita. This woman sizzles like a severed power line. When she dances, sings and blasts her way through America, the roof of the theater starts to buckle...
While the news agency is in temporary quarters, it will continue its summertime concerts on the roof, Finn said...
...woman working in a front office shouted, "They're coming over the wall!" King peered through the two windows, protected by a grillwork made of bricks, in Lijek's second-floor office. He saw the men on the wall and heard others moving on the roof. He did not see any weapons and heard no shooting. "We weren't afraid," he recalled. "We thought they probably were the police...