Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dizzying chase, Mack rammed one of the pursuing cars, sent it careening into a lamp pole. The second agent finally cornered Mack. But as the agent scrambled from his car, Mack opened fire. The first bullet creased the agent's temple; the second slammed into a car window, spraying glass into the agent's face. The report concludes with characteristic understatement: "When the agent was able to return the fire, two of his shots hit Mack, causing his death...
...than it got in all of 1963. Turner Greenhouses of Goldsboro, N.C., sold $50,000 worth five years ago, while last year its sales amounted to $250,000. Turner's least expensive model is a plastic-covered 7-by-8-ft. lean-to built over the door or window of a house through which it derives its heat. A 25-by-50-ft.-square greenhouse, with all-aluminum construction, fully automatic controls, an independent oil furnace and a potting shed, can cost about $20,000. Automatic controls, available even in $1,200 models, are largely responsible for the newly...
Finally, someone sneaked Kerouac a drink through the open window. Having won his point (and the sympathies of his audience) he read several more poems in a clear, loud voice...
Inevitably, he meets a kind-hearted doxy-a bit actress named Barbara Darling, who invites him into her bed and tries, unsuccessfully, to teach him a few rudimentary sexual tricks. Nevertheless, he spends a long, happy weekend with Barbara before losing her to a "doggish window dresser with a great hanging face, pouches, pendulous lip, bum, turn, dewlap...
...often the price of this smooth transition is isolation from the world outside the picture window. "The steady one marries is so much one's half that one hardly needs anybody else. Every problem, every ambition has been shared for so long that one is terribly dependent on one's mate. The extent to which successful American marriages succeed never fails to hit me when I watch grandparents behaving like honeymooners, always together, holding hands and cooing. There are, of course, those who divorce, but I suspect that the high rate of divorce in America comes from...