Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been equivalent to 'negative.' " The group filled to its assigned size of eleven negative males as soon as it was formed two months ago, and there is a waiting list for the new group that the three therapists will start as soon as they can find a roof for it (in Berkeley there are, literally, more groups trying to meet each night to support or empower each other in meditation, martial and marital arts, sword dancing and the like than there are places to put them...
...farther. We coaxed and cajoled him over almost each wave with the radio reports that the quay in St. George's had been secured by the attackers and Fort Rupert taken. U.S. ships were still visible at sea, as were the gaping holes in the green roof of the fort, which has guarded the picturesque blue-water harbor since the 18th century. Two antiaircraft guns on the ramparts were unmanned, and the harborfront seemed deserted...
...Corsair light attack jets screamed down, bombed and fired on positions surrounding where we stood. Then a lumbering gray-painted C-130 with its rapid-fire gun in the rear made its entry, spraying the hillsides above with percussion fire as loud as hailstones hitting a tin roof. We could feel the hot rush of air and the concussion from the exploding bombs, and yet, directly in front of us, four fishing boats still bobbed idly at their anchors, and a young Grenadian in a red bathing suit walked nonchalantly by as if he were still headed for his afternoon...
...most haunting tale belonged to Lance Corporal Robert Calhoun, who was stationed on the roof of the building when the truck came hurtling across the parking lot. "The explosion hit, and everything started falling," Calhoun recalled. "I thought, 'This is how I am going to die.' " Afterward, Calhoun said, he talked with the sentry who had manned the entry gate bypassed by the truck. Said Calhoun: "He says just as the man went by, he'll always remember, the guy was smiling...
...then I got worried about losing my air. Finally I just passed out and came to in the back of a truck." Ways of escape could be serendipitous as well as terrifying. Lance Corporal Adam Webb, 20, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, one of four guards on the roof, glimpsed the speeding truck as it disappeared below him. Webb felt the roof crack, then rode it down the four stories to the ground. Sliding off the concrete slab just before it crashed, the stunned Marine wound up sitting upright in a Jeep parked near...