Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared personae non gratae during future official White House welcoming ceremonies. Reason: last week, when the President greeted visiting Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella on the White House south lawn with a solemn military review and a 21-gun salute, Caroline and her playmates watched from a third-floor window, began mimicking the military commands with cries of "Attention!" "Shoulder arms!" and "Boom! Boom...
...Leaving the seldom used Vatican station at daybreak in the Italian government's presidential railroad car, he made a 400-mile whistle stop journey to Loreto and Assisi to pray for the success of the Second Vatican Council, convening in Rome this week. From the coach's window, he blessed huge crowds along the line and gave signs that he may become a comparative Vatican vagabond. "I especially like to travel by plane," the Pontiff told reporters. "You can see so much of the world in a short time. I hope it will not be another 100 years...
...people were eating lunch in Rosoff's Restaurant, also on 43rd Street just east of Times Square, when a Lincoln Continental sedan driven by Paul Bonadio, 59, shot out of a parking garage next door, caromed off the opposite curb and zoomed straight through Rosoff's window into the bar. Three people died in the shambles of glass and metal, and six others were injured...
...Hospital in the District of Columbia, researchers headed by Dr. Reginald S. Lourie began to concentrate on pica when they found that it was only half the battle to get the lead out of children who had poisoned themselves by chewing old, lead-based paints-usually from window sills. The lead alone is enough to cause permanent brain damage, and leave the victims mentally crippled for life...
...foolish fondness for gringo slang). It is no surprise, therefore, when Gabriela appears-the laughing, barefoot, round-rumped omnamorata who turns up in the bawdy literature of every language. Who is Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes home unexpectedly? Ah, now there is a question to stir discussion in Ilhéus, just as it has fascinated readers in its countless variants across the centuries...