Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel gives body to a spirited hit musical derived from Sholom Aleichem's tale of Tevye and his five daughters, their joys and troubles in a czarist Russian village. Mostel will be replaced by Luther Adler...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel gives body to a spirited hit musical derived from Sholom Aleichem's tale of Tevye and his five daughters, their joys and troubles in a czarist Russian village...
...venial sifts against the language seem to amuse rather than affront him. Under ROOFTOP, he complains mildly: "What would a rooftop be, anyway? Use housetop or just plain roof." He quotes a recipe. "Now throw in two tablespoons full of chopped parsley and cook ten minutes more. The quail ought to be tender by then." Then Bernstein makes his point: "Never mind the quail, how are we ever going to get those tablespoons tender? The word is tablespoonfuls, no matter how illogical it seems...
Meanwhile, a team of Atomic Energy Commission investigators continues to search debris in the now roofless CEA experimental hall for clues to the cause of the mysterious blast. Most of the equipment in the hall is coated with tar that dripped from the destroyed roof...
According to Cummings, three of the eight experiments being conducted at the time of the explosion may get underway again as soon as a new roof and electric wiring can be installed. These were all set up at the opposite end of a corridor from the site of the bubble chamber filling system which is believed to have been the site of the explosion...