Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican position in metropolitan areas of the nation." He added: "If you have the right candidate, you can break through." That notion was vigorously seconded by Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton. "The adage that Republicans cannot win in the big cities," said he, "is now out the window...
...separated from a three-man team of doctors by a 10-ft. wall of sandbags. A 4-in.by 10-in. hole had been cut in the wall at bed level, and a slightly larger win dow above it was fitted with bulletproof glass. Behind the sandbags and peering through the window, Air Force Major General James Humphreys was all set to start a long-distance operation. With a scalpel attached to a 6-ft. pole, and a pair of pincers that looked like the gadget used to pluck a cereal box off the top shelf of a grocery store, Surgeon Humphreys...
...most melancholy voice sobbed. "I've come home: I'd lost my way on the moor." As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window, almost maddening me with fear...
...special Northwest Regional C.I.D. force of 140 men has also busied itself investigating a handful of houses in the neighborhood, some occupied and some not. Crowds watched police meticulously remove kitchen utensils, brooms, linoleum and bedding from one tidy row house, with a vase of flowers in the window, in a "council housing estate" (public housing project) several miles east of Manchester. Last month police turned up a suitcase containing a scrambled skein of recording tapes in the checkroom of a Manchester railway station, played the tapes at a BBC studio. On them were eerie sounds not unlike the voice...
During the fire, four students had to make a dash for safety through a flaming hallway. Three firemen were forced out of a sixth story window by heavy black smoke and were dramatically rescued when a ladder was extended to them...