Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...lawyer who heads New Jersey's department of environmental protection. "We simply cannot allow a situation like this to continue." Wearing a white vinyl coverall over her fashionable suit, yellow plastic bootees over her high-heeled shoes, a respirator and protective gloves, English recently climbed on a rooftop and looked out over the sea of barrels. She broke into a wry laugh, grandly swept an arm toward the rubble and declared, "Some day, my son, this will all be yours...
...Rome the Italians welcomed Carter with an aerial tour of the city, taking him on a helicopter flight over the Appian Way, St. Peter's, the Forum. At times the helicopter flew at rooftop level. Soon after being greeted by President Sandro...
...Serov, 33, two feldshers (paramedics) and a driver climb into a white minibus with the words Skoraya Meditsinskaya Pomoshch (Quick Medical Aid) stenciled on its side. It is equipped with stretchers, medications and dressings, an electrocardiograph machine, heart resuscitator and a respirator. The driver flicks on the flashing blue rooftop light and pulls out into traffic...
...dour old man of 79 shuffles in his heelless slippers to the rooftop and waves apathetically to crowds that surround his modest home in the holy city of Qum. The hooded eyes that glare out so balefully from beneath his black turban are often turned upward, as if seeking inspiration from on high?which, as a religious mystic, he indeed is. To Iran's Shi'ite Muslim laity, he is the Imam, an ascetic spiritual leader whose teachings are unquestioned. To hundreds of millions of others, he is a fanatic whose judgments are harsh, reasoning bizarre and conclusions surreal...