Word: roofing
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...rooftop to survey the surrounding land. "Look there," he pointed to a deeply hollowed out patch of land. "There was the first air strike to hit the area." He was pointing no more than 100 meters away, and he was making me nervous. "Should we really be on the roof?" I asked. After all, Sahal Hospital just 10 kilometers away has been pounded by air strikes. This is shocking to Dr. Gharios, who has seen numerous conflicts in the past. "Hospitals and ambulances were usually off limits," he told me. "Not this time." That is why within moments of being...
...exception. Hundreds of cars, with fluttering white sheets tied to the roof and crammed with people, took the northbound coastal route toward the Litani River, a perilous journey given the bomb-cratered condition of the road and the possibility of Israeli air strikes. By the weekend more than 75% of this 100,000-strong town were estimated to have fled...
Magoon had been on the roof of the three-story building with a few friends and was climbing down to his top-floor apartment to get a couple of sweaters when he fell, his father, Elbert Magoon, said...
Long before before Jenna Bush flashed a fake ID or Amy Carter staged a sit-in, another rebellious First Daughter was grabbing the nation's attention by lounging atop the White House roof smoking cigarettes, placing bets with a bookie and toting a pet garter snake named Emily Spinach in her pocketbook. "I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice," Theodore Roosevelt once said when asked to discipline his headstrong eldest child. "I cannot possibly do both...
...fight over there has widely expanded the definition of threat. Car drives too close to your convoy - suicide bomber or stupid driver? Male with a shovel on the side of a road at 2 a.m. - coming home late from work or digging an IED hole? On the roof of a house within line of sight of an IED explosion - trigger man, cameraman, or just enjoying an evening on the roof when he heard an explosion and came over to the edge to look...