Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Desmond testified he saw 15 to 20 persons evacuated from the southwest door through police cordons and at least three jump out of a window. Two of these, he said, were injured. He said he never saw anyone arrested outside the building, never saw the police perimeter broken, and that the only people not in the building but inside the perimeter were "one or two reporters...
Robert D. Luskin '72 of WHRB testified he was leaning out a second-floor window when he saw Dean Glimp making his announcement. It was, he said, "barely audible." He said he broadcast the fact that Glimp was making the announcement and later broadcast the fact that Glimp was making the announcement and later broadcast the fact that a state policeman was tugging at his microphone cable. On a tape replay, he said, the time between the two reports was 2 minutes 46 seconds...
...issue up more directly. That evening an unknown number of students stole into the recitation room of Mr. Durkin to make their point. They made it with force. "The recitation room was wholly demolished," reported Moore, "all the glass broken--and all the furniture broken and thrown out the window." The College government was incensed by this outrage...
Other U.N. Plaza residents complain that the glare through the windows hurts their eyes (some have taken to wearing sunglasses indoors), and that their parties are dreadfully dull: the guests all just stand around, staring out. Joyce Susskind gets glassy-eyed when she recalls the day she walked naked from her shower, looked out of her windows-and saw a window washer looking in. Stunned, Mrs. Susskind "just sat on the bed and stared. I'll never forget his face -and I'm sure he'll never forget mine...
...presents the bad news in its annual budget and gets quick approval from a compliant Parliament. In what has become a national guessing game, Britons start hedge-buying weeks beforehand on goods and services that they expect to be hit by new taxes. They are urged on by shop-window posters that read "Beat the Budget." Because of Britain's economic difficulties, the guessing in recent years has been over where-not whether-the tax ax would fall...