Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roof. Part of the strain, of course, is financial; the checkbook never seems ready for the unexpected demands. The well-in-advance, all-too-legibly-signed Christmas card "from your garbage man" and "your mailman," the armies of elevator operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list...
...supplier's plant left the new Larks stranded on the production line without doors; by the time cars began to trickle through to dealers, many a would-be Lark buyer had switched to something else. Much the same fate befell the Wagonaire station wagon, which has a rear roof that slides open. Scarcely had the Wagonaire been introduced and consumer demand for it proven brisk when Studebaker discovered that the sliding roof leaked. Not until mid-November was the problem overcome well enough to allow volume production...
...break down this life-blighting system, England is trying a new, U.S.-style solution: comprehensive schools that lump grammar, technical and secondary modern schools under one roof with as many as 2,154 students. England and Wales now have 132 comprehensive schools. London, the leader, has 62 serving 40% of the city's secondary school students, and will soon make nearly all of its grammar schools comprehensive...
...quick end to its futile possession-play strategy, but Harvard was able to tighten the score to 43 to 41 with the clock showing 4:30. Then the roof fell...
Although most of the materials used in the construction will have to be lifted over the roof, the addition is the only one that could be made to the structure with-out altering the basic appearance of both Widener and the Yard...