Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders," he said, reading from notes he had scribbled in the predawn hours. It "reduces the press of this nation to hunters and presidential candidates to being hunted, that has reporters in bushes, false and inaccurate stories printed, photographers peeking in our windows, swarms of helicopters hovering over our roof, and my very strong wife close to tears because she can't even get in her own house at night without being harassed. And then after all that, ponderous pundits wonder in mock seriousness why some of the best people in this country choose not to run for high office...
...that if given a proper format could define dance in a new way." Now his privations really began, and he records them with deep feeling and baleful gusto. Home was usually a wretched flat, cold water or no water. One chapter starts off with "snow sifting gently through the roof." In extremis he ate dog food...
...California's Monterey County in 1986 when its closely held plans to test the microbes in that area were uncovered by a local newspaper. While that issue was being debated, Rifkin revealed that AGS scientists had already injected mutant bacteria into fruit and nut trees growing on the roof of their Oakland labs -- a violation of federal and state regulations. AGS was fined $13,000 for its transgression...
...know." We came to the back of Lenin's tomb, where we found an unguarded drain pipe leading to the roof. I gave Mike a boost and we shimmied up. Up top the Politburo folks were passing out mint juleps and trying to get the Kentucky Derby on a transistor radio...
During such a freefall unfastened objects such as food carts and Mr. Rosenthal may hit the cabin roof. For good reason, therefore, Federal Aviation Regulations require that airline passengers wear seatbelts during takeoff and landing and whenever the pilot, expecting of encountering turbulence, turns on the seatbelt sign. This isn't just "stuff I think"; it is stuff that every safe pilot and passenger knows. William E, Meyer, Jr, '88 President, Harvard Flying Club