Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was sympathy for the fatigue lines under Franklin Roosevelt's eyes, but the nation also wanted action on the dramatic scale of the 100 days of 1933. Only a few people expected anti-aircraft guns to sprout from every rooftop, but the U. S. as a whole wanted assurance that industry, finance, labor, politicians would all fuse in a national mobilization for defense...
...trunk, burns her body in the furnace, conceives an alibi to implicate her Communist lover. Bigger's explanation to himself is that the murder was an accident, would not have happened if she had not passed out on rum. Shortly before he is caught in a rooftop chase he murders his girl Bessie with a brick, throws her down an airshaft...