Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera's melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
...Friends of Harvard Hockey raised some $280,000 last year, most of it for the roof on the new hockey rink...
...technique of Community Development is the key to its success, for it does not hand the villagers anything for nothing: the villagers themselves must be the chief part of any effort. "Give and Require" is the basic formula. "If you will put a good tile roof-on your hut," said the Development Commissioner to one farmer, "we will give you an extra acre of land...
House Without a Roof. Galland guesses that the Nazi higher-ups, lacking both stomach and plans for invasion, fatuously hoped that the airmen's bold onslaughts would cow the British into seeking peace. But when they didn't, the mighty Luftwaffe, terror of Warsaw and Rotterdam, was shown up as too weak for decisive warfare, equipped with fighters lacking in range and Stukas too short on speed and bomb load to destroy Britain's plane factories. The irony of the matter, says Galland, was that the Allies, not Germany, learned from the Luftwaffe's failure...
...police into the building. "Get that ADA Harvard man off the steps," they screamed at one college photographer that tried to pass through the lines. A McCarthy Citizen mockingly shouted, "As Vice-President of the Harvard Young Republican Club, I demand to be let in!" Up on the roof a portly man in a double-breasted suit kept pacing back and forth, followed by a white cat with black spots. Their exact function is still unknown...