Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullet tore into Evers' back, plowed through his body, pierced a window and a wall in the house, and came to rest beneath a watermelon on a kitchen counter. Evers' wife Myrlie cried to her three small children to fall to the floor. She ran outside. "Medgar was lying there on the doorstep in a pool of blood," she said. "I tried to get the children away. But they saw it all-the blood and the bullet hole that went right through...
...incomprehensibly tasteless. British bathroom humor, some of it-abetted by dentiperforate Terry-Thomas, who skulks about as a spy-is overdone drollery. The rocket that the duchy launches in full ivew of an invited delegation of U.S., British and Russian diplomats has a fringed curtain at a stained-glass window, and carries a hot water bottle, a teapot, a cage of live chickens, a ukulele and a selection of good wines. When Grand Fenwick's spacemen get to the moon just ahead of the Americans and Russians, they plant their flag, turn to the arrivals, and say: "Oh, good...
...Five stars, symbolizing his Army rank, are painted on the window...
...device is deceptively simple in conception, but like most space hardware, it is complex in construction. Essentially, it is a mechanical eye that sweeps the sky and is rigged to notice only the 50 brightest stars. Its main working part is a small mirror that rotates inside a window, scanning narrow strips of black space. When the mirror's field of view crosses one of the 50 stars, a photocell reports the star's position to a computer. When three bright stars have been reported, the computer measures the angles between them and compares them with known angles...
...ticket window at 60 Boylston St. will be open today until noon for baseball ducats. Undergraduates may trade coupon 35 for a ticket until noon. Admission is $1.50, and tickets will be sold at the field...