Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly familiar." Plus he nearly managed to blow himself up by peering into a booby-trapped box of rocket-propelled grenades on a hotel roof...
...find out just what makes the world such a horrible place. (Besides, it's usually great fun.) But it is not his war reporting that distinguishes him; rather, it is his eye for the bizarre, the mundane and the incomprehensible. During student riots in Seoul, while being pelted with roof tiles, O'Rourke took note of the spotless bathrooms. At Saudi gas stations, which have 58 cents-a-gallon gas and American-style rest rooms, he reported a problem with footprints on toilet seats. It seems not | everyone there is used to modern conveniences. And it may be O'Rourke...
...flames swept through the top floors, forcing the evacuation of 200 people. One American and one Soviet fireman were treated for smoke inhalation. The conflagration, the third to break out since 1977, is believed to have started accidentally in an elevator shaft before spreading to the upper floors and roof...
...weeks have taken to camping out in front of homes to ensure themselves a chance to bid. The Toll Bros. development company held a grand opening the first weekend in February for a new housing project southwest of Philadelphia -- not that there was much to open. Only a single roof had been raised. Yet 400 people showed up the first day, and the initial 32 homes planned sold out within four days. When the company held an opening for a project near Washington the following week, buyers put down deposits on 14 of the first 20 homes...
Satellite photographs of the building showed at least two additions: a newly hardened roof and communications equipment that was protected against the electromagnetic effects of nuclear blasts. The satellites also snapped pictures of military vehicles parked outside and men in uniform entering and exiting the building. A wire-mesh fence surrounded the bunker; its roof had been painted with camouflage and fake bomb holes...