Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although most people go to Lamont this time of year to work in quiet, noise from construction on the roof has turned the library into a less than ideal study environment since the first week of reading period...
...construction, which began January 6, entails replacing the old roof cover with rubber insulation, according to Facilities Maintenance Manager Corliss Van Horn. Van Horn said that the construction job had originally been scheduled for early December, but was delayed until the end of the month because of poor weather...
Other renovations to the building, which at 128,000 square- ft. is one of Harvard's largest, included restructuring locker space, repairing the roof, and enlarging the areas used by the Harvard wrestling and fencing teams. In addition, a glass-encased mezzanine level for aerobics has been added over the pool...
...stockings and battered shoes that barely contained the fat of their feet. He followed small children as they hopped over stoops and banged on garbage cans. He zeroed in on the eyeballs of men coming home from work. He knew someone across the street had seen him on the roof with the rifle, probably saw him now, aiming it, checking the lever action, and adjusting the crosshairs on the scope. He didn't care. Apparently they didn't either...
...estate know, the best investment is in facts, details, odds and ends of the real world. There is little doubt that most of the + brutal and absurd acts that the author embellishes can be documented in newspapers and police blotters. If you think it is impossible to steal a roof, check it out. Is Glynn exaggerating when he writes headlines like LANDLORD TOSSES OUT EPILEPTIC AND DEAF-MUTE . . . SHE SHAKES, HE CAN'T HEAR, THEY GET BOOT? Only slightly...