Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to newspaper accounts, Barghoorn and Miss Osgood watched from their hotel window while shouting student mobs fired cars and smashed windows. Barghoorn told reporters that he thought the disorders were "rigged" since the stones thrown by the rioters were not native to the area...
With the Wall closed, East Berliners turned quickly to the old, familiar escape techniques they had used before Christmas. A family of five, whose apartment abutted the Wall, skidded down a rope dangling from a bedroom window. The same night, a trio of dusty girls popped into the basement of a West Berlin apartment after a harrowing scramble through a 450-ft. tunnel whose mouth lay in an East Berlin coal-yard. But border guards soon found the tunnel and blasted it shut...
Even after the motorcade disappeared behind the Vatican walls, some 35,000 people clustered beneath the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace. When the Pope finally appeared at his window, he spoke not as Catholicism's Supreme Pontiff but as a city's pastor, abandoning the magisterial "we" in his informal address. "I want to thank everyone who was in the crowd to welcome me," he said. "I bring you back blessings from Jerusalem where I celebrated Mass this morning. I have had the fortune to embrace, after centuries and centuries, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and to exchange...
...away in drawers or secret hiding places. They have learned how to rope and brand it. When a securities salesman stopped his car outside a doctor's office in Córdoba province recently, an old man in rags stuck his head through the car's open window. "How much are the Ledesma shares?" he asked. The surprised salesman quickly quoted a price. "I'll take 7,000," the man replied, and produced a bank statement that proved he could afford...
...been alleged earlier that the defendant ate greasy, fried chicken at the window. The presence of a palm print indicates that he wore no gloves and took no precautions to prevent a trail of fingerprints and palm prints. Nevertheless, no prints of the defendant were found on the floors, walls, window ledge, window frame or window. Only a movable cardboard carton, subsequently present at the police station while the defendant was also there, is now alleged to have his print...