Word: roof
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DeFrancesco and six other officers then formeda human pyramid so that they could gain access tothe burning building's first-floor roof, where onewoman was stranded. The police were able toextricate the woman without injury either to heror the officers...
With autumn absent from our daily urban lives, we have to make a special effort to take notice of it. Jews have the advantage of the holiday of Sukkot, which starts tonight. By dining outside in a booth, under a roof of branches, the Sukkot holiday forces observant Jews back into contact with nature at a time of year when attention ought to be paid...
...comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been running on the roof, as his tracks show. And wouldn't have slipped on snow...
...Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze. When it officially opens this week, 10,000 people at a time will be able to play in the temperature-controlled waters of this...
...from the fridge, kick back in his air-conditioned second-story sitting room and listen to music, all thanks to a power line that hasn't been turned off. His brother Ray, 60, isn't so fortunate. "That's my house over there," he says, pointing to a blue roof just above the waterline. "I left my house in the 1973 flood, and they stole everything I had. There's no way I'm leaving this time." So he sits on Walter's second-story porch, just 1 ft. above the Mississippi, and watches debris from Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa...