Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the softness of bats, seven ghosts settled down on the flat roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta. They found someone else already there: a statuesque female figure, crouching, with her eye glued to one of the holes in the roof (it had been through the Russian Revolution, three years of civil war, 21 years of Socialist reconstruction, the German invasion and the Russian reoccupation...
...temporary" steel rafters which were installed before the war to buttress a weak roof...
...waiting in one vast hush for the wonders to begin, God the Father would suddenly appear above them, on an airy platform surrounded by choirs of angels, flowers and revolving wheels of fireworks whose sparks, floating upwards like distant suns among the vaulted shadows, more than once ignited, the roof...
...Wilden, Worcestershire, the town where his great-grandfather in the late 18th Century had started the family fortune by building an iron foundry. Baldwin's nurse, to assure his success, climbed to the attic with the newborn baby, stood on a chair, and raised him toward the roof...
...changes, including a 7,000 sq. ft. roof sundeck for employees, ran Broadway's construction expenses from an estimated $3,000,000 to an actual $6,000,000. But it showed retailers some new tricks...