Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
Sportswriters called him "the ballplayer Ring Lardner missed," and when Yogi was beaned in Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...
...Harvard Lampoon published a little book about itself, the first chapter of which described the Lampoon building in some detail. "The roof of the tower," it said, "is capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in a large and meditative Ibis...
...Dover, Del., State News possesses many distinctions. It may well be the only U.S. daily whose reporters cannot come in out of the rain. The roof leaks. Its editor accepts payola-and brags about it. Accept the gift and ignore the giver, he says. He also quarrels with his wife on the editorial page and takes pride in not knowing what his writers are going to say next. Simply by being there, the paper has canceled one of the city's own claims to distinction: until the State News came along, Dover was the only state capital...
...Dallas, where the development formula has long been: "Build a brick box with a hip roof and you can't miss," Designer Parker Folse offers a $16,850 two-bedroom house with a 200-sq.-ft. balcony jutting over the living room, a butterfly roof, a massively handsome fieldstone chimney that anchors one side of the house, which contains 1,275 sq. ft. of living area...