Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty stock exchange? color it pretty. Do not color the window; it is open. See the man on the window sill? He is a businessman; color him poor. Color him quick; he won't be there long...
...More Stars. Above Carpenter's right ear hung a glass globe in which he studied the movements of fluids freed from gravity. He had a camera with which he took pictures through the window, using several filters. He experimented with eating new kinds of special space food. He measured the brightness of stars and other outside objects with a photometer. Intricate gadgetry demanding his attention was everywhere. But for all his preoccupations, the astronaut found time to take a careful, searching look at the earth below him. And he brought back the best report...
...height of Wall Street's trading frenzy last week, Chase Manhattan Bank Economist William Butler told a top New York broker: "Well, I guess this is a healthy readjustment." Snapped the broker: "One more healthy readjustment like this and I'll go through the window...
Nobody went through the window, and few really went through the wringer. But the convulsion that swept the stock market cost millions of Americans dear in anticipated profits, and particularly the amateurs among "small investors" who put their money into the market at or near its peak and sold out at last week's low. Not since the dread year of 1929 had trading been so heavy (average daily volume: 10,000,000 shares) or the ticker tape lagged so late. Before the week was over, delays of an hour or more in the tape became routine...
Icicles fitted the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause...