Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this got back to Commissioner Zurmuhlen when his engineers reported a few years ago that time was eating away at the statues atop the Appellate Division Courthouse. Newspapers ran a story that the ten lawgivers would be lifted from their pedestals on the building's roof and repaired. When Mohammed's name appeared among the rest, the ambassadors of Indonesia, Egypt and Pakistan told the U.S. State Department, on behalf of their Moslem peoples, that the Prophet's image should not go up again...
...Geiger counter test on evaporated rain water in the Yard this past winter "sounded like a bobcat backing into a thorn bush," continued Thomas. "Most of the radiation that comes in rain or snow never gets beyond the roof, though any radioactive material that does get in decays very rapidly. There is no significant accumulation of irradiation of any amount in the water," he concluded...
...assistants, Mr. Nichols, was known as "the blind proofreader" because of his nearsightedness. Nichols once mistook a bird nest under the library's roof for a book he was trying to reach. After accidentally dislodging the nest, he called for pages to bring ladders and wasn't satisfied until both bird and nest were safely on the ground...
...Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady Is a Tramp. Best of all: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Barbara Bel Geddes and Bus Stop's Kim Stanley in a brace of crackling scenes (specially "blended" for the occasion) from their respective plays...
...There is no law that the more sick and tormented the subject matter, the more severe should be the approach; but even most of Elizabethan drama, for all its blaze of poetry, foundered from an undisciplined portrayal of disordered lives. The disturbed people in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof seldom become truly disturbing; the audience merely reacts where it should be made to respond...