Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thicket. He took their money, then locked them in the truck. After 15 minutes on the road, the cramped Mexicans discovered that there was no ventilation. "The air was gone," Pantoja said. "We couldn't breathe. I fainted." Others managed to pierce two small holes in the roof, but there was still not nearly enough air for 47 men. Leonel Zavila, 18, told of banging vainly on the window behind the driver's seat during the ride. "How can people be so inhuman...
...through a new censorship law. Since then, the Lords Chamberlain have had unchallengeable authority to ban plays by Ibsen (Ghosts), Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession), Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author), Arthur Miller (A View From the Bridge) and Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). The most notable modern playwright to run afoul of the Lord Chamberlain is John Osborne. One of his plays dealing with homosexuality, A Patriot For Me, was banned entirely;* almost every one of his scripts has had to be heavily laundered before the censor would give his approval...
...estate agent, she lost her faith at 22 (in 1842) after a characteristically exhaustive study of new scientific attacks on the Scriptures. (She had attended several schools, but was largely self-educated.) When she declined to accompany her father to church, he refused to have her under the same roof and sent her away. It was the start of a long struggle between conscience and convention...
...nature. He was officially rehabilitated in 1957. He found a job teaching mathematics in Ryazan, 120 miles southeast of Moscow. It was harder finding a house. Finally he built one atop a garage, using three walls of surrounding buildings for his own walls and adding a front and a roof...
...politics were far from the minds of yesterday's crowd, which broke up slowly as the amateur bagpipers and drummers--who during the week come down to earth to be truckdrivers and lawyers--made their way to the Quincy House roof to ward off any lingering banshees...