Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truck driver from the town of Poggibonsi suddenly realizes he has forgotten his driver's license. Che male fortuna, it's in his pants pocket at home. So he whirls the truck around and heads back. When he rings the doorbell, his wife leans out the window. "What's wrong, mio caro?" she asks sweetly. "I forgot my license." "Wait, I'll throw it down to you," she chirps. Back on the road to Rome, the truck driver is stopped by the police for a routine check. The driver's license he produces...
...Hours. The man stirs himself to consciousness, sits up in bed blinking. Outside the window he sees nurses, MPs, patients in wheelchairs, the routine bustle of a U.S. military hospital in occupied Germany. He picks up a copy of Stars and Stripes. It is dated May 15, 1950, and the headlines jolt him: PRESIDENT WALLACE SPEAKS...
...foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...
From all indications, the southerners would like English as India's official language, and they have an impassioned ally in Oxford-educated Education Minister (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Mahomedali Chagla, who has pleaded: "Let us not destroy the link language. It is our window to the world." Under the 1963 act, Parliament is to review the language question again in 1975. But at his first formal press conference last week, Premier Shastri confirmed his support for Hindi, and as for bureaucratic snafus, he said simply, "There will have to be some waste of time." With that, Shastri...
...only a couch, Joe," one yelled from the window, as he dumped it outside, cushion by cushion. The frame was thoroughly axed in the room, taken downstairs in a freight elevator, and set under an open hydrant on DeWolfe...