Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Most news offices had air-raid shelters underground, fitted up as newsrooms, with telephones and typewriters. Associated Press, United Press each kept a steel-helmeted reporter on its rooftop to watch raiders and telephone descriptions to the newsrooms down below. When the lookout announced that bombers were overhead, half the staff ducked into shelters; the rest stayed at their desks upstairs...
Same time, U. S. correspondents in Germany were encouraged to report the massing, by night and in large numbers, of German troops on the Continent facing England, and in Norway, where they were "practicing landings." Pictures of Germans practicing rooftop exercises on a sort of huge "jungle gym" were released in the U. S. On the other side of the Channel the hand of General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, the British Army's new Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped...
...show's star performer, famed Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, perched in a rooftop studio, last week went to work on sketches for his big fresco (22 ft. ½ in. by 44 ft. 3 in.) at the north end of the Fine Arts Palace. Commissioned for the new San Francisco Junior College library, the fresco counterposes the old Mexican Indian God Quetzalcoatl against a steel stamping machine (with the same outline, even to breastlike appendage), Mexican pyramids and tropical scenery against U. S. skyscrapers, traditional Mexican serpent against conveyor belt...
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...