Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes hurled bricks and bottles from rooftops, smashed the windows of the police cars. Rioters ran through the streets, shattered virtually every storefront window in a four-square-mile area. Looters dashed into the stores, grabbed racks of clothing, cases of liquor, groceries, furniture-anything they could move. They overturned cars, set fires, burned down a hat shop. Burglar alarms rang constantly...
...watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins. Mobs broke into a church and smashed a statue of the Virgin. Roving bands looted everything, including stocks of vitamin pills. When prostitutes in a second-story window heckled the rioters, they burst in, pitched one girl from the window, killing her. Another gang stormed a hospital, dragged out a Catholic patient and speared him to death. Three Catholics were lynched, one hanged from a tree with barbed wire. Some Catholics retaliated by throwing grenades...
...delegates had been warned in advance. On the jet flight east, California Democrats got a mimeographed caveat: "No major hotel has been built in Atlantic City since 1929. and all of them have endured bad years. Such matters as falling plaster, removable doorknobs, detachable shower handles, unopenable windows, droughts (temporary water shortages of one kind or another), inoperable window shades, interminable room service, and lethargic elevators should be reported to the management or shared with sympathetic friends. The latter seems to have the best results. Welcome to Appalachia by the Atlantic...
Houston's outbreak-the first in the city's history-began in the dingy Negro sections, where mosquitoes breed in open drainage ditches and get into houses through tattered window screens. But the disease quickly spread to all areas of the city, probably borne by the female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, a night biter that acquires the virus from birds (and possibly small animals and reptiles), which are thought by most experts to be the natural reservoirs of the disease. SLE attacks the spinal cord and the brain, destroying nerve cells and frequently damaging the small blood vessels that...
...studying for a degree in psychology. A TIME correspondent found him sitting in a small, stark, rented room that resembles a monk's cell. A few books lay on an oak table; there was an iron bed, a worn pair of slippers tucked underneath. A tall, narrow, curtainless window looked out on a garden where a summer rain pelted the leaves of a great elm. Rubbing his bald head, Hermand reminisced...