Word: housetops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor. He took one alarmed look, decided to send her to a hospital. But the ambulance did not come for another hour. When emergency-ward surgeons finally discovered her trouble it was too late. She died without knowing that a .22 caliber bullet, fired by boys playing on a housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced...
...Kharkov, for the first time in the memory of the oldest Moscow writer, they were allowed to cover a Russian news event at the scene. A dozen U.S. and British reporters and one Frenchman left Moscow's Metropole Hotel before dawn, drove to an airfield, flew at housetop height to Kharkov. Interpreters translated for them during the proceedings, then transcribed their stories speedily into Russian, telegraphed them back to Moscow for cabling. A Red Army officer couriered dispatches to telegraph offices...
After leaving college, Hanby became a preacher, but there was more music in him than preaching. When Benjamin Hanby died at 33, he had written 75 songs. Two others are still sung today: a children's Christmas song, Up on the Housetop (Up on the housetop, click, click, click; Down through the chimney with good St. Nick), and the hymn Who Is He?, included in the hymnal of the Church of England in Canada...