Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared in my life," recalls Brocato. "I hope I die if I'm ever that afraid again. We all dirtied our pants...
...Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery, Ann picked up a custom-made shotgun and blew Billy's tiny brains out. She had mistaken him for a prowler who was, in fact, walking about on the roof at that moment. "There's only one worse thing Ann could have done," joked an acquaintance the day after the shooting. "She could have shot the horse." The horse happened to be Nashua, Belair's greatest winner and one of the few sympathetic characters in the book...
There was, however, one survey result Bill Clinton coveted -- and he was truly pleased when he got it. According to his campaign's own research, which has been famously rigorous and appropriately pessimistic, the number of people willing to think of Clinton as President has gone through the roof. That was the week's goal, a "mission defined" and a "mission accomplished," to borrow the words of the man Clinton would replace. "It's confirmed," Clinton was told last Friday. "We have our second chance. The playing field has been leveled...
...Gores emerged with a different kind of partnership, putting more emphasis on teamwork. In April 1987, when she learned that her husband was making plans for his unsuccessful White House bid of the following year, Tipper reportedly hit the roof: he hadn't let her in on the news. Gore's decision to accept Clinton's offer of the vice-presidential slot was arrived at differently, after much family deliberation. "Everyone liked the idea that the campaign would last three and a quarter months," she says precisely, if a bit optimistically. This time, a lengthy bid for the presidency, which...
...Church fires are notorious" he said. "The roof can be 80 to 90 feet above the floor, and we have 55 foot ladders...