Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cologne Cathedral's delicately balanced spires, soaring 515 feet into the air, still stood. Mainly, the bombers had succeeded in sparing it. But at a corner of the central window over the main door there was a jagged hole; there were others in the roof. Thousands of small chips, knocked from the carved stonework, were scattered about. The Germans had removed the windows and main altar, bricked up the statues. The choir loft was in ruins, the confessionals smashed and heaps of rubble covered the floors...
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...
...Madam," said the foremost ghost, an imperious woman with a bullet hole in her head, "what are you doing on our roof...
...former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...
...years, three months and eleven days later. At his bedside were a kindly, long-winded physician named Dr. Leete, and his lovely daughter Edith. At first Julian thought a cruel and elaborate practical joke was being played on him. But when Dr. Leete led him to the roof and showed him a transformed Boston, with miles of broad streets, tree-filled squares and majestic architecture unknown in 1887, he turned giddy...