Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's ability to carry on under a continuous hail of bombs, amid seething wreckage and raging flames, without a roof over the heads of people, without sleep and with the slenderest food supplies, is not due to British ability to 'take it' or proverbial toughness...
Added last week to the list of bomb-scarred landmarks were the London Times building (publication was not interrupted), British Ministry of Information, Trafalgar Square (Nelson's statue not damaged), St. Paul's Cathedral (high altar smashed by falling masonry, but the lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire...
...heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part...
Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car. When His Royal Highness jumped out, grinning and ruefully rubbing his ears, which still rang with the concussion, women gathered round the Duke. A frightened little girl came up and put her hand in his. He held it while he chatted with the people. "It's grand to see you here," said they. "How's your wife and youngsters?" "Fine, thanks!" said the Duke...
...Zuckerman described one case of a man injured in a recent air raid. A medium-calibre bomb fell through the roof and exploded in the same room with him. His only external injury was deep laceration of the thigh, but he died in twelve hours. Autopsy disclosed numerous hemorrhages of the lungs...