Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the German geologist became the first to ascend to the rarefied heights of Mount Kilimanjaro, an immense dormant volcano 49 miles long and 24 miles wide that straddles the border between Tanzania and Kenya. Or the myriad of tourists who have since gasped their way to the roof of Africa...
...team stumbled onto chalk foundations, sloped mortar flooring and, most astonishingly, the base of the stage 6 ft. below the ground. From the debris, scientists have determined that the Rose was a small polygon-shaped theater, just 43 ft. in diameter, with plaster walls and a thatched roof. Viewers sat in tiered galleries or stood in a pit in front of the stage. Among the rubble was a layer of hazelnut shells, possibly the medieval audience's version of popcorn...
...their book American Mainline Religion, Wade Clark Roof of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and William McKinney of Hartford Seminary pin much of the blame for decline on long-term demographic trends. As with higher- status groups generally, the authors report, birth rates in traditional Protestant churches dropped below replacement levels in the 1960s, and future trends are alarming because of the rising average ages of members. Moreover, note Roof and McKinney, while liberal congregations never excelled at converting nonbelievers, they used to attract a steady flow of "switchers" from other churches. Social-climbing gains by high-prestige mainline...
WORCESTER--You could see it in his face, how his boat was doing. He stood on the roof of the boathouse, pacing, grimacing and then, finally, when the race neared its end, grinning...
...would be a better story if he had signed "Henry Diefendorfer," but the truth is he wrote "Hank Aaron." Too bad. Diefendorfers are going through the roof...