Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another raid Broadcasting House was hit again. First seen by a spotter on the roof, Bomb No. 2 was announced to the A. R. P. control room in the basement with the comment: "There is one coming so close I could almost catch it." After the bomb exploded beside the already damaged building, the control room gibed to the spotter: "Butterfingers." Score for Bomb No. 2: Policeman John Charles Vaughn, recently engaged to Jean Orr Ewing, daughter of Brigadier General Sir Norman Archibald Orr Ewing...
Minutes later, the 77th Congress rose from its predecessor's ashes. The phoenix nest where this political rebirth occurred looked not unlike a bird cage, thanks to a network of steel girders, erected temporarily to hold up the aged and rickety Congressional roof...
...madrigal in stone," stood alone over the ruins of the church. Supreme amid wreckage rose the great dome of St. Paul's, saved through the devotion of scores of clerks, journalists and professional men who kept a 24-hour vigil over it. Guarding every foot of the roof, they extinguished firebombs as they landed and doused flaming cinders blown by the wind...
Willingness of towns outside of the London area to care for those who have been dispossessed is an indication of a morale and quiet determination "that is almost unbelievable," Fulton remarked. Almost every family in rural England, he pointed out, has at least three or four evacuees under its roof...
Building a ship is like building a house, where putting up the walls must wait laying the foundation and the roof must wait on the walls. When one job is finished, expert workmen are laid off until the same job comes along on another ship. With shipyards booming along both coasts and the Gulf, laid-off workmen (about 8,000 a month out of 160,000 now employed in the industry) have been loath to wait, frequently have moved to other yards. The purpose of the Washington conference was to stop delays...