Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems clear to me that he hasn't even started to use the powers that are available to him." Said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins: "White people in Alabama make it impossible for us even to debate whether the President should act. My objectivity went out the window when I saw the picture of those cops sitting on that woman and holding her down by the throat." Birmingham's Negroes were certainly not worried about legalities; they were not worried about the niceties of "timing," or even about the morality of using children as troops. Instead, theirs...
...trouble was worth it. The scenery was a magnificence of circumvallate mountains. The water in the lake was as clear as window glass. The trout are so big that all but the best fishermen would have to use construction cranes in stead of the usual lightweight rods. ABC had the best fishermen, two from the U.S. and two from Argentina...
Police Chief Jamle Moore said there were no unusual incidents overnight. Scattered reports of window smashing and minor scuffies between Negroes and white persons had plagued the city since Sunday, when thousands of angry Negroes rioted...
...accurate, uncluttered view of the universe, radio astronomy needs at least one UHF window that is not blocked by scattered TV chatter. And if the FCC keeps Channel 37 clear of commercial broadcasts in the U.S., the International Telecommunications Union, which meets this fall in Geneva, is likely to do the same for the rest of the free world...
...dreams, Carl Jung found a window to his "dark side," and, encouraged by the visionary knowledge that invaded his earliest nights, he never abandoned it in all his 85 years. Dreams became for him the stuff that life is made of, "the inner happenings that make up the singularity of my life." In his posthumously published autobiography, Jung ignores the outer events of his life for fear of obscuring the importance of its dreams. In the telling, the dreams become fascinating insights into Jung's thought, and the book becomes an adventurous example of the psychoanalytic monologue, in which...