Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interlards these with sizzling passages like this one from The Stars Look Down: "Linked together, they moved to the foremost pew, cushioned and wide as any bed . . . her lips were moist with desire. The rain drummed upon the roof and the darkness of the church reddened and enclosed them. When it came, her cry of physical exaltation rose before the altar...
Sponsored by the State Board of Health, the privies are built with WPA labor. In most cases, the owner provides land and materials-pine lumber, concrete for floor and pit, corrugated iron for the roof. Total cost: $34, divided equally between material and labor...
...final 20 minutes, Kukan offers the most awesome bombing sequence yet filmed of World War II. The target is Chungking on Aug. 19 and 20, 1940. While scores of Japanese bombers poured some 200 tons of bombs into the defenseless city, Photographer Scott stood on the roof of the American Embassy 800 yards from the sector where most of them fell, and made his color shots. They are infinitely more frightening than a black-&-white bombing. The camera pans from the neat Japanese formations of 36 planes in threes in the blue sky to the crimson splash of bursting bombs...
...bazaars and harems. Their great friends were Abd-el-Kadir, an almost legendary chieftain who had held out for 15 years against the French, and Jane Digby El Mezrab, the Mabel Dodge Luhan of her time. The four of them used to have ritual evening meals on the roof, "and after that we would smoke our narghilehs and talk and talk and talk far into the night...
...field "to speak words of comfort to 107 ewes due to lamb in a week." The bombs started to drop all around him. After the raiders passed, he returned to his whitewashed cottage. As he opened the back door, a bomb exploded in his front garden and blasted the roof, walls and windows, but he was unharmed. Fred Mitchell, O.B.E., saved a lot of mutton for Britain...