Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago Cecil crawled through the barrier and snuggled into Penelope's burrow. Hope soared. But one day when the platypus keeper went to find Penelope, she was gone. She had apparently slithered under her wire-mesh roof. At week's end an unhappy posse at the Bronx Zoo was still scouting the 250-acre compound. They hoped that Penelope had not ended up in the Bronx River or the Jersey flats. Cecil just scratched his stomach and fed his ego. Where once there were two, he was now the only platypus in captivity-outside Tasmania and Australia...
...Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...
...demands found themselves faced with anarchy. In Kerala's 107° heat, workers surrounded the homes of the managers, cut off their supplies of food and water. On one plantation the workers urinated in all the rain barrels, were defeated only when the plantation manager ripped off the roof of his house and collected rain water in the bedrooms. Loyal workers who tried to smuggle food or water to their employers were beaten and stabbed...
Hard by Moore's field is Moore's simple whitewashed studio where he works on an open veranda under a transparent roof that keeps him from being rained out. Last week he was chipping away at a huge chunk of dazzling white plaster against the deep green grass and bright blue sky. It was the working model for the 30-ton marble reclining figure of a woman that will be placed in front of the UNESCO building in Paris. It will be completed next year...
...come West on a one-way ticket, borrowed a gown for the Long Beach judging. When she won the big prize she was down to her last $2. "I'm not manstruck," she said. "I'm not marrying until I'm 26." And then the roof fell in on Leona Gage: the judges learned that she was married...