Word: pane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that scene, the mother and son circle the stage, his blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...
...University will install air conditioners and an extra pane of glass in rooms facing Mass...
...didn't really feel like I had my fastball today, so I kept 'em off balance with my curve," McOsker said after the game. "It's an adventure throwing out there when you don't feel like you can break a pane of glass...
...prison to give Billy a photo album which conceals several $100 bills. The scene is relentlessly painful, especially when an almost incoherent Billy insists that Susan shed her blouse to give him the first glimpse of a woman's breasts in five years, even if it is through a pane of glass. Yet by some minor miracle, the brief encounter has the desired effect on Billy. He finally pulls himself together, and his new sense of hope brings him back enough sanity to try an escape one more time. He succeeds, of course, and the sensation produced by the concluding...
...coincidental fact that wood is scarce: virtually every building is made of stone or brick slathered generously with gray-white plaster. Windows tend to be small, doors heavy and roofs snugly covered with baked clay tiles. In addition, German building codes often mandate special insulation for new houses-double-pane windows, for example...