Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire department, rushed to the local fire barn and discovered to his astonishment that the engines were already gone, to another black church, Central Grove Missionary Baptist, which was burning a few miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth, a big, quiet man who serves as the church's deacon. There were tears streaming down his cheeks. She thought to herself, "They had labored so for that church...
...American Marriage, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen reveals that Marilyn Monroe was frisky indeed on the evening she delivered her breathy rendition of Happy Birthday to J.F.K. At a party for him later that night, Monroe headed for a window to do a striptease for government sharpshooters stationed on a roof nearby. That's patriotism, Demi Moore...
...mentioned the tornado that hit Beatrice, Nebraska, but you failed to convey the full impact it had on our town. The bleachers in our stadium are ruined, softball fields are no more, houses are gone, trees are uprooted and the roof was blown off our middle school. It was a lot worse than you made it appear. AMANDA GOWEN, age 11 Beatrice, Nebraska
...humanities center, when completed next spring, will bring many of the humanities departments together under one roof. Currently, these departments are scattered in different buildings throughout the campus...
...this good news for anyone other than, say, five or six giant phone companies? "The world will be a much simpler place for consumers," argues NYNEX's Seidenberg, "with more choices, more services and more products united under a single roof and unified brand." Seidenberg says phone bills should deflate as the companies merge their billing and cut their labor costs; thousands of jobs will be downsized in the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX upsizing...