Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riding on the roof of a boxcar that night. It was raining. Refugees were so thick you couldn't move. You know, one of those woman refugees, she had a baby that night, right there on top of the car. About an hour after it was born she had a fever of 101 degrees, the baby had 103. There was a Chinese Red Cross man with us. So we broke open my army first-aid kit and I took out my sulfanilamide. The Red Cross man broke one of the tablets into six little pieces and fed them...
Hangar-on. In Phoenix, Ariz., 58-year-old Amateur Pilot James Taylor undershot the airport, but wiggled to a successful landing on the hangar roof...
...Labor Minister Robert Ley promised German workers a grandiose housing program. In 1944, bombed-out workers were getting: a one-room house, 8 feet high from floor to roof peak, 12 by 18 feet of floor space. A curtain separated sleeping space from combined kitchen, living room. A privy hung on an outside wall. Families with more than five children were allowed two houses, two privies...
...When Churchill raised the roof, Bonomi finally offered Badoglio a job in the new Cabinet as Defense Minister. The old Marshal had the grace and good sense to decline, offered to serve his country whenever he is both needed and wanted...
...Anna Steible, a nervous wreck from woodpeckers' daily 3 a.m. barrage on her garden wrenhouse, had it removed. The woodpeckers promptly removed themselves to the roof of her bedroom...