Word: plateglass
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...pointed reference to their latest bereavement. This is an age in which the Vice President, in consecutive convention speeches, makes lachrymose use, first, of a son's accident, then of a sister's death. (Noted one mordant wit: At this rate, his wife had better not walk near any plateglass windows.) In such an age, we can use the example of a man who through four presidential terms dealt with the agony of a nation while keeping his own agonies to himself...
...comedown was considerable from the high hopes of Lisbon in 1952, when the NATO council set a goal of 65 "ready" divisions. In 1954 NATO cut back its hopes, adopted a "new look" strategy based on the use of tactical atomic weapons behind a thin "plateglass" shield of infantry, and put the new target at 30 divisions. The plate glass was getting thinner all the time. Last week NATO could field only 15 "shield" divisions, of which five were U.S., four British, to defend the line from the Alps to the Baltic...
...Baltimore, the fans broke a plateglass window trying to get to Mario. In Pittsburgh, where 2,000 paid just to hear him rehearse, two girls had to be taken to the hospital. Says Lanza: "They go for your handkerchief. They go for your buttons. They rip at your lapels. They try to kiss you. Oh, how they try to kiss you! I love every minute of it." While the police grappled with mobs that tore detectives' badges off in their frenzy to reach their idol, Lanza collected an average of $4,530 from box offices in each...
...Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother, he taught her to skate when...
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