Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside him but escaped injury: "There was a considerable amount of blood on his clothes, mainly around his heart...
...Criminal Mind. In Camden, N.J., police were hunting the burglar who jumped from Miss Helen Larkin's window, then rushed back into the house and retrieved his shoes. In Louisville, police nabbed two men as they returned to the scene of the crime to recover their tools...
...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
...Buicks, Cadillacs and Maybachs, the captains and the kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's Koenig, they sat down to a hard bargaining session. The meeting, though suddenly called, had not required much preparation: the conference room had been kept scrubbed and polished-just in case the military governors, who had not used it for 23 weeks, might come back. Nor had the delegates needed much...
...solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept it moving on his smallish, crowded set as freely as a dancer. Furniture and whole chunks of set had to be whisked out of the camera...