Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also seemed to Clark both contained and candid. "Not a single question did he refuse to answer or dodge. Looking back, I suppose I will think of him most often sitting in a plane, hunched in a window seat close to the wing, if possible. I really think he spends more time aloft than on the ground, and it is there that he does much of his best thinking and writing...
...since the Trotskyite riots in the 1920s had Moscow seen anything like it. While crowds of Russians watched with amazement, more than 400 African students last week battled Red cops in the streets, inside Red Square itself, right past Nikita Khrushchev's own office window. "Moscow-A Second Alabama," said one crudely lettered sign, in Russian and in English. "Stop Killing Africans," warned another placard...
...Natural." Once again police gave way. The horde raced across Red Square, up an incline not far from Nikita's window (he was out inspecting an economics exhibition), past Lenin's granite mausoleum, and on toward the historic Spassky Gate that leads to the inner Kremlin grounds. At that moment the huge iron gates clanged shut. Using sound trucks, the police pleaded with the students to disperse, but for two more hours they argued and jostled with police. Ogling the demonstration were thousands of Russians, who watched from the street and from the windows...
...half about ten years ago, are now being built with two and 2½ bathrooms, and bigger ones at that. And the rich are asking for and getting bathrooms with pool-type tubs, wall-to-wall carpeting, mirrored ceilings, arched canopies, private patios, and sometimes a picture-window view. In these circles, the bathroom is no longer thought of in its puritan context as strictly (and slightly shamefully) utilitarian, but as a sybaritic place of permitted indolence and luxury...
...great bald head looking as if it might have been hewn out of yellow pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When the interview ended and our hero strutted out, Lenin gave one of his arid chuckles and said to Trotsky: 'Ah, the little bourgeois; ah, the little bourgeois!' That...