Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a majority of Southern Rhodesians, black as well as white, want independence under the present system, and agreed to prove it-presumably in the form of a referendum. Smith agreed to shelve his threat of a unilateral declaration of in dependence. "We have chucked that out of the window," he said, "for the time being...
...Ceylon when he chucked his career to become her combination lover (they decided against children because of her health), high priest and nurse. By 1912, when they married, she already had a history of neurasthenia that included two breakdowns and an attempt to throw herself out of a window after her mother's death...
Humble Thanks. Through a window, newsmen watched Murphy scribbling on a yellow pad as his ex-wife took the stand. Still smiling, she emerged at noon for a storybook picnic lunch (ham, roast beef and chicken-salad sandwiches on white bread with trimmed crusts) in the sheriff's office. Still unsmiling, Murphy and his wife ate in a bar and grill down the street...
Amid these portents, the U.S. laboring man in his great variety-from the sandhog in the bowels of a city to the window washer high above, from the production line worker to the sedentary clerk-has taken a historic step. Now that he has more money than ever, he has turned to the next need: security. In current contract negotiations throughout the U.S., the stress is on job security, early retirement and increased pensions. A contract signed last week between Armour and two meatpacking unions guarantees that workers displaced by machines will continue to earn their previous wages-even...
...hotels were hit just as hard. A huge plate-glass window at the Fontainbleau Hotel collapsed, and water and wind caused as much as $250,000 damage to rooms in the Deauville and Americana hotels. "It was worse than Argonne," said a 72-year-old World War I vet, but incredibly, the most serious injury Cleo appeared to have caused in all of Florida was a broken arm, suffered by a 60-year-old woman guest at the Fontainbleau when a door fell...