Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought . . . that those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
...still haunted Czechoslovakia. Persistent rumors whispered that Masaryk had been murdered. In Washington, Juray Slavik, former Czech ambassador to the U.S., said that Masaryk had been bludgeoned to death (after he had shot two of his assailants) and that after death his body had been dumped from his study window. Snapped Evzen Erban, Czech Minister of Social Welfare: "Fairy tales . . . Hollywood yarns...
General Omar Bradley, the Army's versatile Chief of Staff, did a little low-level navigation outside his old home town of Moberly, Mo. Flying in from Washington through rain and poor visibility, the general peered out the window, spotted a few landmarks, guided the confused Army pilot safely to the airport...
...Ravenna, Ohio, Ballplayer Harold Hartung dreamed that he was chasing a fly ball, chased it right out his second-floor bedroom window...