Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes from Mississippi's tent cities last week staked out for themselves some of the choicest acreage in the Great Society-the tulip beds of Lafayette Square, just a few steps across Pennsylvania Avenue from Lyndon Johnson's front door and within nailing distance of his bedroom window. "We want," declared Camp Leader Frank Smith, 25, "to let the President see exactly what the housing situation is in Mississippi...
...political arm of the defense community, which De Gaulle has given leave to stay on in France in the hope of emphasizing a fine Gallic distinction: that France is withdrawing from NATO's military structure while remaining a member of the Atlantic Alliance. That is a bit of window dressing the U.S. is little disposed to allow De Gaulle. If the other NATO members will go along, Washington will likely try to move the NATO council out of France as well...
...take off again. When the pilot refused, Betancourt shot him dead and frantically tried to get the plane off the ground himself. But the Ilyushin only roared off the end of the runway and came to rest in a plowed field. Leaping out of the pilot's window, Betancourt managed to escape into the darkness...
...Johannine Spirit. Yet, along with the new atheism has come a new reformation The open-window spirit of Pope John XXIII and Vatican II have re vitalized the Roman Catholic Church...
...sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate static electricity; a new drapery lining that by chemical action can control the amount of light filtering through it, with the result that more light will be allowed to enter...