Word: roof
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From their room upstairs, Escobar and his single bodyguard, Alvaro de Jesus Agudelo, returned fire. Having desperately thrust himself through a second- story window, Escobar, clad only in jeans and a T shirt, tried to climb through a narrow metal grating leading to the roof next door. From there, he might have been able to leap to the ground and dash into a nearby wooded area. But a fusillade of machine-gun fire stopped him on the grating; hit by seven bullets in the head and neck, he crumpled to the ground...
Even the ear plugs she wears to bed didn't prevent her from being woken at about 11:45 p.m. to cries of "The roof, the roof is on fire," and "Break it. Break it," El-Amin said...
...attorney-spokesmen for the Jackson camp, responded to the allegations by stating, "No one was ever fired by Michael Jackson for knowing too much." Moreover, J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of an unauthorized Jackson biography, noted the singer's profound distaste for ever being under the same roof with his parents. "For years Michael would drive up to the house and do a U-turn if he saw his father's car in the driveway." Nevertheless, says Mathews, "We'll let a jury decide. We hope to go to trial next summer...
This summer, workers jackhammered through a large section of the roof of the tunnel under Memorial Drive and fixed up the walls with steel reinforcing. They also poured new concrete for the roof, Hawkes says...
...Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic mix of U.S.-born creeds -- everything from Branch Davidians to New Agers. In the future, says sociologist Wade Clark Roof, "clearly the bounds of religious pluralism will push further and further out, and that's very American...