Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions. The 650 youngsters who attend Saigon's American school were transported in Navy buses with steel-mesh window guards, and with armed Navy enlisted men riding shotgun. MPs patrolled the school grounds and roof with Armalite and M-14 rifles held in raised position. Barbed-wire barricades went up in front of the U.S. embassy and other key U.S. installations...
...Occasionally he will say some splendid thing and the story will make the rounds, but there are personalities more actively bizarre than Monk's around. Rollins is a Rosicrucian who contemplates the East River, letting his telephone ring in his ear for hours while he studies birds from his window. Mingus is so obsessed with goblins from the white world that person to person he is as perverse as a roulette wheel; his analyst wrote the notes for his last record jacket. Coltrane is a health addict?doing pushups, scrubbing his teeth, grinding up cabbages...
...looking for all the world as if he were the one who had just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most of his energy to New Hampshire. He climbed a 5-ft. ladder to shake hands with three girls who were leaning out of a second-story window in Dover, dropped in at a Contoocook beauty parlor to chat with the ladies, and only once during the week did he seem slightly rattled. That came during a visit to Mount Sunapee State Park, when he was shaking hands with skiers and a six-year-old boy protested: "Rockefeller...
...incriminating documents and laboriously prepared a 900-page indictment against Heyde and a group of his former associates, including Friedrich Tillmann, 60, onetime director of a Cologne orphanage. Last week, seven days before they were scheduled to go on trial, Tillmann plunged to his death from a nine-story window in Cologne. Next day, Heyde, 61, looped a belt over a radiator in his jail cell and hanged himself...
Once, while shaving in preparation for a garden party in Kandy, Ripley looked out the window and spotted a Picus chlorolophus wellsi (small green woodpecker) that he needed for his collection. He grabbed his gun, dashed out of his hut wrapped only in a bath towel, and started shooting. The gun's recoil jarred the bath towel off. As the guests, including Lord Louis Mountbatten, gawked at his lanky (6 ft. 3½ in.), naked figure, Ripley enthusiastically retrieved the fallen Picus. After dressing, he urbanely rejoined the party...