Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties, inspired by Author Edward Stratemeyer's series. "I've been looking forward...
...shaky start. In Tosca's last act, the guns of the firing squad failed to go off and the hapless hero was obliged to keel over in dead silence. Building maintenance was just as makeshift. One rainy night, to dramatize the need for repairs to the roof, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri was given a pair of tickets for seats directly under a dripping leak...
From several holes in the ground, one as large as 12 inches in diameter, De Lumley has deduced that the roof of the dwelling was supported by beams or tree trunks. The people who lived there may have been pre-Neanderthal men, like those who inhabited a cave discovered earlier in Nice...
...project for a Chicago Convention Hall where 50,000 people could gather in unobstructed space beneath a gigantic trussed roof 720 ft. square...
...nation's most ramshackle major industry-housing-had hoped to rebuild this year, but it appears that the roof is still caving in. Reason: mortgage credit has grown scarcer and costlier since the Federal Reserve Board's recent increase in the discount rate. The board's overall purpose was to prevent inflation. But, the predictable side effect on housing of its move was to inflate prices and discourage buyers in a $25 billion-a-year business that has been slumping since late 1963, despite unprecedented prosperity throughout the rest of the economy. "The general tightening in mortgage...