Sen. Obama, who has taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, has regularly referred to himself as a constitutional law professor, most famously at a March 30, 2007, fundraiser when he said, I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution..
Hip roof. A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid.
mansard - (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper; the story formed by a mansard roof is usually called the garret. hipped - (of a roof) sloping on all sides; a hipped roof has sloping ends rather than gables.