Word: roof
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...most ways, it was a conservative series, adhering to the conventions of series drama. But even in Dallas' debut, creator David Jacobs offered beguiling variations: a dozen wealthy Texans living, fighting, snarling under one ranch-house roof, a catalog of venality that included every vice but coprophilia and a leading character (J.R.) with the morals of a mink. In its second season, Dallas became a cliffhanger, and viewers hung on. By the 1979-80 season, it was the sixth most popular show on American TV, and for the next five years, it finished either first or second...
...knowing that their small Ukrainian town was dying that morning as they gazed at the ruddy glow over Chernobyl reactor No. 4 some 2 1/2 miles away. It was a bright spring Saturday, April 26, 1986. A townsman came in from sunning himself on a roof, exclaiming that he had never seen anything like it, he had turned brown in no time at all. He had what would later be known as a nuclear tan. A few hours afterward, the man was taken away in an ambulance, convulsed with uncontrollable vomiting. Soon many of his neighbors were coughing, throwing...
Enough of this blame-the-victim mentality. Trees need to breathe, too. The steel sheet should go around the Castle. All the way around. All the way to the top. With a roof. A good construction date: this week, when Frank Sinatra visits. Everyone will be inside. Let 'em rot there...
Vellucci says that his long-standing disdain for the Lampoon dates back to the early days of the Lampoon-tree rivalry. He says that the mutual sentiments stem back to an incident in the early Sixties involving the copper Ibis, now electrified and resting on the roof of the castle...
Ciancio said that workers found it difficult to disable the pump on the roof. Even after the source of the leak was stopped, he said, dripping continued over the women's accessory department for much of the rest...