Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last helicopter lifts off from the U.S. embassy roof and sways, almost tauntingly, in midair. The blast from its rotors flutters the now useless documents of the South Vietnamese, crushed against the gates, who were promised escape but are being left behind. Imbued by the occupying forces with the American Dream, they are abandoned to a nightmare retribution. That harrowing image from the newsreel of the mind not only inspired London's biggest new musical but is actually re-created onstage. While special effects generally promote escapism rather than emotion, the scenes of the hasty and haphazardly callous U.S. retreat...
...partial collapse of a YMCA pool roof in West Roxbury because of corrosion has not prompted Harvard or the city to change building inspection procedures, officials said yesterday...
...although corrosion is a problem on lockers and radiators at Blodgett, Lichten said employees have not noticed roof damage...
...routine hazards of farming. Accompanying Bauer and his friends is an anonymous character known as "the city man" -- almost certainly Rhodes himself -- who accidently discharges his rifle. The bullet passes through the windshield of a truck and the crown of the driver's cap before channeling into the roof of the cab. It is a chilling moment, one in which to give thanks for a tragedy luckily averted and thanks that Rhodes was not similarly careless when reporting on the atom bomb...
There was so much controversy surrounding Personal Fouls that its initial publishers decided to abandon it, particularly after N.C. State officials went through the roof after hearing of the allegations--which were revealed on an early book jacket release. Carroll and Graf, a small New York publishing firm, decided to print the book, and the university began an investigation. So far, Valvano has stepped down from the post of athletic director, but it remains unclear what further changes will be made in the Wolfpack program...