Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jovial President Eisenhower last week sliced into a 3-ft. birthday cake modeled after the White House (with a putting green on the roof) and said he was happy to be 64. Explained Ike to a Denver birthday-luncheon: "Considering the year I was born, if I weren't 64 I'd be dead...
...Paris this week, the builders of the West's defenses gathered about the scaffolding, rolled up their sleeves and hurried to put the roof on the achievement of the London conference before it is struck by icy gales from Moscow or by damp rot from within...
Later in the afternoon. Dusty stepped up again. Just to keep his franchise, he smacked an honest homer high against the rightfield roof. Next day in Cleveland, Dusty only had to wait until the third inning. He ambled to the plate, eyed Pitcher Mike Garcia and promptly planted a solid, two-run single in rightfield...
...Price set up eleven assembly lines and scores of sub-assemblies in his Lafayette plant. Amid the Gatling-gun racket of automatic nailing machines day last week, National's House No. 66,657 took shape at Lafayette. A wall swung down one assembly line, while ceilings, floors and roof were assembled on others. At one location, a machine cut and shaped a door and drilled all the holes for hardware in ten seconds; machines automatically sprayed a first coat of paint onto small pieces of wood, then other machines sanded them down for a second coat. In exactly...
...over for 350 years (when the right man was convicted, name of Guy Fawkes). The pilgrim has been given to understand that inferiority complexes should be of more moderate size than cathedrals of -more on the lines of a semidetached villa which may have terra-cotta griffons on the roof but no real monsters within. It is a "cosy" doghouse, Koestler admits, and in gratitude affirms that this mild race lives "closer to the text of the invisible writing than any other." No one in Koestler's new home would dream of asking a stranger what France...