Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rifles, surged into Johannesburg's main business district. At Shell House, the 21-story office building housing A.N.C. headquarters, security men fired a fusillade at the demonstrators, turning the pavement into a jumble of bleeding bodies and hawkers' overturned stands. A few blocks away, rooftop snipers opened fire, killing several more marchers and sending thousands of demonstrators and office workers fleeing in panic. When the casualties were counted, 53 people were dead and more than 400 injured...
...street. Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Bray, 27, kicked in the door of a house, one of several buildings the soldiers would eventually occupy. For the next 12 hours, the pilots of Task Force 160 would provide the only lifeline keeping these besieged Rangers and Delta Force troops alive. Dropping to rooftop level in the face of intense fire, the Little Birds repeatedly emptied their rotating machine guns, then flitted back to the airport. Several pilots flew as many as nine missions; not one could recall a fight so ferocious that the fuel lasted longer than the ammunition...
...theme of a world incapable of spiritual reawakening, a world without God where people are incapable of giving and receiving love. Reporters covering the story of the statue's transport are inside the helicopter, and the only people they humorously manage to "awaken" are four attractive sunbathers on a rooftop shouting "It's Jesus Christ,"from whom they unsuccessfully request Phone numbers...
Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...
Readers be warned. The author won't be obscuring, for the sake of journalistic objectivity, his passion for the subject of this article. The Link deserves oodles more praise than any impartial, lifeless news story could ever provide. From the rooftops (or, even better, from its rooftop), he will shout whooping praises for The Link, Harvard's most recent and most intriguing building project. Not often has one structure satisfied so many with such intelligent design...