Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myriad other effects to order. His work has taken him to both East and West coasts and as far north as Canada, but most of his clients are in the Southwest. For, quite aside from the pleasure an oil baron gets from seeing his flora through the picture window, he needs night lighting for another reason. The incinerating Texas sunshine discourages bosky browsing in the landscaped areas; southwestern millionaires take their ease among the trees as the gods once did-during the cool of the evening...
...Miami, Henry Keller, a onetime window salesman, scraped together $8,000, formed Air Control Products to sell aluminum windows, sashing and patio furniture. Keller concentrated on cost cutting and simplified production, last year rang up sales of $37.5 million...
...million initial contract to build the lunar "bug" that, it is hoped, will land Apollo astronauts on the moon by 1970. The 12-ton bug, called LEM (for Lunar Excursion Module), will be like nothing ever seen before: 10 ft. wide and 15 ft. high, with a window-dome top and three strutlike "legs" for landing...
Pushing the Limits. Encouraging as all this appears, these facts remain: there is a balance of payments gap, it has widened recently, and it is destined to widen further in the current quarter. European banks habitually build up their dollar accounts as "window dressing" for year-end bookkeeping, and this expands the U.S. deficit. Moreover, the U.S. has just about reached the limit in "tying" foreign aid funds to U.S. purchases, and it can hardly jack up interest rates much more during a period of economic sluggishness...
...children. For five days, as a popular song of the time was to put it, "Men's bodies, women's bodies, were hurled in the terrible fury down into the river, to carry the news as far as Rouen with never a boat.'' From a window in the Louvre, King Charles avidly took target practice at bodies floating past in the Seine...