Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Assembly meeting, and to get a look at Gromyko five days before their White House talk. The Soviet Foreign Minister, showing a rare smile, was the ninth of more than 200 foreign dignitaries to file past the President at the head of the receiving line in the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria. Reporters timed their handshake at a long 23 seconds. Gromyko reminded Reagan that they had greeted each other once before, in 1973, when the then Governor of California was introduced to Soviet officials accompanying Leonid Brezhnev on a visit to President Nixon in San Clemente.* Reagan...
...Michigan State, a 6-ft. 3-in., 215-lb. flanker. "A very natural game for me," he said, "football came easy." It only appears that baseball should be simple for a muscleman fast and strong enough to take his homers inside the park or over the roof. After exaggerating his promise by batting .328 in the strike-shortened season of 1981, he slumped last year...
Stoddard compared the roof reconstruction to Widener's window repairs; neither is an emergency but both are due. He added that this is the first time that the library, built in 1942, has been repaired...
...crew is reinforcing the tarry layer underneath the slate shingles and is replacing worn-down bricks. It is also waterproofing the molding at the roof's edge, said Stoddard...
Said Library Assistant James J. Lewis, "It's an important library to have the roof...