Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Clarence Twining was a well-to-do banker, Uncle Nathan Twining a rear admiral and (in World War I) chief of staff to Admiral William S. Sims (but Uncle La Verne Twining, a Los Angeles mathematics teacher, built his own airplane in 1908, launched it from a barn roof, crashed and broke...
With Trujillo's press attacking them steadily, and with his sanitary inspectors likely to drop in any time to assess heavy fines for a loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...
...comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
...HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF (426 pp.) -Jean Giono-Knopf...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...