Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last resort for frustrated bug planters is a special mike attached to a sharp spike; driven through the wall, it vibrates with the surface on the far side. But, like esoteric radar beams that pick up the vibrations of distant window glass, spike mikes are apt to be defeated by stray noise unless conditions are perfect...
...politics or literature, Harrington talks about the poor and their problems. All he can do is smile with frustration when forced to talk of himself. "When I applied for a residence permit in France, they actually ushered me past a huge line and took me to the V.I.P.'s window. They thought I was some sort of celebrity!" And then he brushes his short, uncombed hair down over his forehead with an almost embarrassed gesture...
...Asseyev jumped from a window of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Platt at 369 Harvard St. He was hospitalized until Jan. 15, and after his release was reportedly still under psychiatric care at the University Health Services...
When Richard Burton was eight years old, his mother paraded him up to a pastry shop window. As he admired the delicacies inside, she ordered him to walk on, remarking piously, "It is so good for little children to restrain themselves." Enraged, Burton smashed the glass, clawed out a tray of apple puffs, and ran. It was 1829. A lifelong battle between the unrestrainable appetites of Richard Francis Burton* and the tastes of Victorian England had been joined...
...years" of his life "comfortingly stacked away in his mind." But one day, sitting in the pub at lunchtime sipping his glass of Guinness, he becomes aware of a "new sensation of threat, nagging him at last into an awareness of his own acute unhappiness." He looks in a.shop window on the way home and sees the reflection of an old man. In terror, he marries a widow and commences his life...