Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monks began banging a ball around the courtyard of a French monastery some 700 years ago, and the sag hadn't changed. Neither had the court, very much-it still had most of the features of the old courtyard the monks used. On three sides, a sloping roof (called penthouse) was a memento of the monastery's cow sheds...
...house indefinitely. The Father's doubt and inability to communicate are expressed convincingly through the unrestrained, almost laconic writing. The rest of the fiction is much less impressive. "The Kite," by George Bluestone, describes an uninteresting little boy watch his uninteresting little friend fall off a tenanment roof ("He felt hot lava rising and falling in his midsections.") Maurice Lynch, the author of "Old Salty," also makes the mistake of compressing his story so tightly that we never have a chance to become interested in the characters. The only thing that can be said for the tale is that...
Except for 25,000 tons of structural steel framework (which were thoroughly coated with bright aluminum paint), almost the whole plant is made of aluminum -three miles of wall paneling, 2,000,000 square feet of roof sheeting, 500,000 square feet of window sash, 1,340 miles of wiring, 98 miles of conduit and 6,800 lighting fixtures, all surrounded by the longest aluminum fence (four miles) ever made. Even the 112 workers' homes outside the fence are built of aluminum...
...leaked out. The "Joy Continuous Miner," as it is called, is under 25 feet long, weighs less than 20 tons and moves on caterpillar treads. It has powerful cutting arms which first dig into the face of a seam at floor level, then cut their way up to the roof. As it is cut and broken, a conveyer system carries the coal back over the machine directly into cars, in which it is hauled to the surface...
...priest reported the latest Communist tactics. Peripatetic comrades in impressive, official-looking dress visit the peasants to ask if the roof is leaking or whether they need new farm equipment. Jotting down the peasants' eager answers, the Communists say: "It's up to you now to get these things. All you have to do is vote...