Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shattered windows, cars fired on by German planes. On Saturday night I talked with an old man and his ten year old son fleeing in a car from a town in the Ardennes. They had left by the roadside his wife and daughter who had been gunned through the roof of the car. I saws blood on the cushions. Too horrible for words? No, I want to bear witness. I saw a women watching her dead baby in a wrecked truck. I heard a small child ask, "Mama, where are we going? Home? NO, the house is ill broken...
...CRIMSON and Lampoon called off hostilities for a night as all publications joined forces at a dance held on the Plympton Street roof garden Saturday night for the first time in many years...
Selections from the Pi Eta and Hasty Pudding shows, arranged especially for the dance by Reeves, added to the colorful occasion which was staged largely under the cover of a small-scale circus tent set up on the roof of the newspaper building...
Fiercest, most aloof of the mountain tribesmen are the tree-dwelling Ibilaos (pronounced Ee-beh-lah'-os), who run across the roof of the jungle on rattan vines like tightrope walkers. They have two chief occupations: 1) raising rice in small clearings of the jungle; 2) hunting heads. Not so prevalent as in the past, head-hunting is still a sport and a ritual among some savage Luzon tribes, where a young buck often cannot qualify for marriage until he has snicked off an enemy head. Head-hunting was one of the things the officials in Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija...
...Mercuries, Lincoln-Zephyrs at the October A. M. A. auto show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. Reason: "We are glad to cooperate with the automobile industry . . . as a matter of convenience to the public in enabling it to see the products of the entire industry under one roof...