Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid losing Paradise Lost, Harvard is repairing the leaky roof of Houghton Library...
...years, you need to renew a roof," he said, adding that "we've had water leaking in the attic...
Cheering supporters lined the streets of Hyderabad, the state capital, as the popular star greeted his fans from the roof of a van that he has dubbed his "Chariot of Divine Enlightenment." Later he thanked Mrs. Gandhi "for seeing the light." Many of his admirers would like to see him run for Prime Minister against Mrs. Gandhi. After starring in more than 300 feature films during his 31-year career, he would have one important attribute: instant nationwide recognition...
...literary New York, it was the equivalent of somebody's winning the state lottery. A middle-aged novelist, burdened with debts, a leaky roof and a bruised ego, suddenly found himself celebrated and rich. It was as sudden as the surprise phone call that informed William Kennedy, 56, that the MacArthur Foundation was giving him one of its "genius awards": $264,000 tax free with no strings attached...
...JUST CAN'T make pictures about spaceships, "says Norman Jewison, director of such films as The Cincinnati Kid, ... And Justice for All, In the Heat of the Night, and Fiddler on the Roof among others. "I'm not interested in them, I'm interested in people," he adds...