Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Incredibly, this musical discovers high theater and infectious gaiety in the funny-sad story of Tevye and his five daughters in a Russian village prior to the 1905 revolution. Zero Mostel is a million rubles worth...
Many a man is convinced that a witch lives under his roof. With the arrival of the present TV season, many another is probably wishing that he could exchange his incumbent hag for Elizabeth Montgomery. Pretty and blonde with a turned-up nose, she hardly suggests cauldrons full of rat guts and eels, but she plays a thoroughbred sorceress married to an advertising executive on ABC's Bewitched...
...poem has got to be obscure, it should at least repay close analysis. Dawson's "The Pigeon Roof" does. It becomes evident, if one struggles with the disconnected sentences, that the narrator a) hates pigeons, b) once started a forest fire, c) had a friend who was a better poet who almost got killed when they were swimming in an irrigation ditch, but who recovered only to die on a golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing...
...night with Michael Smith to her death, Judge Rodney Eielson found Michael guilty of reckless driving and negligent homicide. The judge concluded that Michael, not Nancy, was driving, on such simple physical evidence as the discovery of Nancy's blood on the right side of the car roof. He sentenced him to six months in jail on the homicide charge, to be suspended after 60 days...
Yogi Berra's pitcher, Rookie Sensation Mel Stottlemyre, had nothing wrong with him that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...