Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their vows of revenge, the Malcolm X followers were as good as their word. In Harlem, less than 36 hours after the murder, a fire bomb tossed from an adjacent rooftop through an upper window of the Black Muslims' Mosque No. 7 sent flames shooting 30 feet into the night sky, gutted the building. Six firemen were hurt when a wall caved in, and 320 cops rushed to Harlem from three boroughs under a "rapid mobilization" order after the alarm was sounded. In San Francisco, another mosque was set ablaze, but firemen quickly doused...
...worked with the admiral for more than two years, cites a recent occasion when Moorer was ordered to present a briefing. Moorer asked Brett for a look at some photographic slides that were to be shown. "He took out each slide and held it up to the window of the plane and looked at it for just a moment and put it back in. He went through 25, one after another. And then he said, 'Okay, now let's see if I have them'-and he told me what every slide...
...assembly seats, it would declare the colonel to be Honduras' constitutional President. To provide a semblance of opposition, López permitted the deposed Villeda Morales to return from exile in Costa Rica and run a full slate of Liberal Party candidates. That was largely window dressing. Opposition leaders complained that army troops went around arresting key Liberal organizers and lifting the identity cards of thousands of Liberal Party members...
...after a family quarrel, Jean Starr decided to commit suicide. When she opened her bedroom window in Zanesville, Ohio, she was afraid to jump and compromised by trying to beat out her brains with a hairbrush. This serio comic vein runs throughout her new book, which describes a lifelong love affair with art and with artists, "those people who have been most meaningful...
...Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers say, "our two patients could easily have had opportunity for infection from pigeons, which were often just outside the window of their upper-story room." If a virus like that of psittacosis can be proved to initiate cell changes in Hodgkin's, both theories about the origin of the disease will be neatly fitted together and proved right...