Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST-FLOOR room in Barnard Hall--the newest of all Harvard buildings--the roof leaks plaster onto my bed every night...
During the Revolutionary War, Harvard was taken over by 1,500 of Washington's troops as a barracks. When the students returned from temporary exile in Concord, they found that all the brass doorknobs were missing, and much of the lead roof had been melted down for bullets. Harvard subsequently granted Washington its first honorary doctorate in 1776, and the President later transferred his step-grandson there from Princeton on the theory that Harvard, still largely a school for clerics, was "less prone to dissipation and debauchery...
Anti-sniper teams guarded the area aroundMemorial Hall, keeping watch from the roof of theSchool of Design across the street. A police dogsniffed photographers' bags before the Princearrived, and members of Scotland Yard were also onthe scene...
...factory workers. With a friendly, lopsided grin, he says in passable Russian, "Well, I'm just a simple worker." He switches to English and adds through a Soviet interpreter, "I'm ashamed to say it about my country, but in New York there are 60,000 people without a roof over their heads...
Well, not exactly. Mauri never spent a night on the street. Following his eviction, he was immediately moved into a subsidized apartment in Manhattan. Nor, perhaps, was that the only roof over his head. He appears to have had access to a rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue, a thoroughfare that has become a yuppie mecca. Mauri has claimed that the apartment belongs to his estranged wife, but neighbors say he has also lived there for at least ten years...