Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even as the orchestra alternates Russian dances and American foxtrots with admirable impartiality, not even common convention can dispel the uneasiness, like a chill draught from an unseen window, that stirs through the perspiring crowd. Three young men try hard: a bright-eyed British captain, a young American diplomat and a blond, slightly bewildered-looking Russian lieutenant who apparently speaks some English. The American has his hands in his pockets as the other two systematically spoon up their mixed salad. Says the British captain: "I've only been here two months but I really do like it . . . We certainly...
...about fire hazards, wondered the frustrated inspector? Did the Russians know that fire laws prohibited occupancy of a frame house by more than 15 people? "Our people," said the comrade, as faces peered from virtually every window of the huge, three-story mansion, "do not smoke in bed. We will have no fires...
Before the gendarmes arrived, Stravinsky scrambled out a backstage window. At 2 in the morning he piled into a cab with Nijinsky, Diaghilev and his friend Jean Cocteau, and drove through the Bois de Boulogne. Cocteau remembers: "We were silent; the night was cool and clear. The odor of the acacias told us we had reached the first trees. Coming to the lakes, Diaghilev, bundled up in opossum, began mumbling in Russian . . . tears running down [his] cheeks...
...Window, not windows, is correct; and it was used, as Lieut. Colonel Smith thought, to draw attention from actual formations, as well as to create a false impression that larger formations were aloft. Each two-ounce package of "dehydrated bomber" scattered over Germany looked to radar like three Flying Fortresses...
...over his sketches, Bernard scribbles shorthand notes on the time of day, the type of window frames, the age or make of an automobile, and then adds tiny numbers (one for light, ten for dark) that make up his color scheme. Even months later, "I can read the notes like a book-in three minutes...