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Word: shopwindows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...government or indicated to the Austrians what we plan for them. Whatever one may think of the Vienna government or of the Russians' unilateral action, the fact remains that the Russians have moved with dispatch and are displaying their wares to the Austrians. So far our shopwindow has been filled chiefly with confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCCUPATION: Scandal at Salzburg | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing his mother an egg as importantly as if it were the Eucharist; or, with a half-witted friend, scanning the books in the Public Library; or, before a robot in a shopwindow, first realizing death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pure in Heart | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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