Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social programs of the '60s were the right thing at the time, but now it's as if we're afraid to change even one piece of decoration on the house for fear someone will start yelling that we're trying to tear the roof...
Before razing the building over the old subway exit, the Perini Construction Company the firm which handled the MBTA reconstruction, saved the structure's distinctive copper roof for eventual repair Perini duplicated the original building over the subway station and topped it off with the refurbished roof in accordance with its contract with the MBIA...
Although Rajiv and Sanjay and their families lived together under their mother's roof, there was occasional friction between the two dissimilar brothers. Once, when a Western friend asked Rajiv why he did not simply move elsewhere, he seemed startled and replied, "I could never have done that to Mummy." Later on, after Mrs. Gandhi was returned to office from her post-emergency defeat, Rajiv is said to have taken a dim view of the oldtime politicians who were again fawning over his mother and his brother. "All the old gang is back," he once remarked with a touch...
...roof comes down and everybody cries--It's very Harvard-y," O'Brien said, adding that "if [alumni] can fit on the stage, they get on the stage" to play or sing along...
...kind of sworn to myself ever since I fell off the roof that I'd get there by hook or by crook," he added...