Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having raised Washington's annual revenue from traffic fines by nearly $500,000 in one year. Getting wind of the Acheson incident, Morse took to the Senate floor for an irate recital on the "inexcusable violation," the "shocking case." Acheson, whose only real offense was not displaying a window sticker naming him a Government official, had the right words for it all: "An irritating episode...
...wrong time. I just get my two-year-old to sleep in the afternoon when those damn chimes begin to sound." Adds another: "Once the ice cream man has been around, I can't get my children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts over Beverly Hills struck such a sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail...
...Audrey Hepburn look young even before she needed any artificial aids. It seems he is hung up on the same little-nothing dress that was a wow five years ago. Givenchy fled even before his collection had been completely shown, and the only applause came when someone opened a window...
...respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...
Along the way, the self-portrait developed its own problems. Chagall tried and abandoned nearly a dozen. Finally he achieved what he wanted -a pensive ink-and-crayon study of himself with palette and easel, at a window of his studio, the characteristic colors of his beloved Vence countryside in the background. When Senior Editor Cranston Jones had the cover story and the color pages of Chagall's work ready to go to press and the last points were being checked, the master decided that the experience was "one of the great events of my life." Having recently received...