Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back, plowed down through his chest, fractured his right wrist, and lodged in his left thigh. A photographer looked up at a seven-story building on the corner-the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse for textbooks-and caught a glimpse of a rifle barrel being withdrawn from a window on the sixth floor...
...Dozens of them poured inside with shotguns and began a room-to-room search. And near the fifth-floor landing, half-hidden behind crates of textbooks, they found an Italian-made kind of 6.5-mm. rifle fitted with a fourpower telescopic sight. One flight above, near a sixth-floor window only 75 yds. from the point where Kennedy and Connally were shot, they discovered remnants of a chicken dinner in a bag, an empty pop bottle, and three spent cartridge cases. The assassin was gone...
...says one diplomat, "oils the hinges of a man's office door It is true that the whole party round can be a wearing process, and many a diplomat, trapped in a wall-to-wall crush, has recalled wistfully how Andrew Jackson climbed out of a White House window during his own Inaugural reception in 1829 and hot footed it across the Potomac to Gadsby's Tavern "But sometimes," says U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Moors Cabot, "there is a direct payoff, with an immediate discussion behind the potted palms." Some recent payoffs along Washington's champagne...
...awfully thin plot for a two-hour play, and Miss Jellicoe doesn't help her play any by making her characters so one-dimensional. Each has one characterizing action--which he repeats to distraction. Tolen, every time he sees a girl passing on the street, jumps out the window to pursue her. Colin, when confronted with anything female, cringes in terror. And Tom talks and acts crazily, but at least he finds more than one way to be mad. There's only one way a man can jump out a window, and the act tends to pall about the third...
...shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window. In Manchester he bought a pair of overshoes while photographers recorded the purchase...