Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grey-haired, bespectacled Washoe County District Court Judge Grant L. Bowen, 63, sat in his chambers and peered out the window into Reno's Virginia Street, hoping to catch a glimpse of the arriving plaintiff. "This is a great break for Reno," he said to New York Daily News Correspondent Bill Berry. "It may mean Alabama-bound divorce seekers will come here again...
...last week-it had been busy as usual-President Kennedy went to National Airport to bid a fond farewell to his wife, off on her trip to India. He intently watched as the plane began to move; when he saw Jackie wave from the window, he broke into a grin. As for himself, he was about to take off for Florida and a weekend rest-and also for a bit of politicking, which to him is both recreation and lifeblood, and one of the reasons he is able to stay on top of his job and feel jaunty...
...Gaulle sent a delegation headed by his trusted Algerian Affairs Minister, Louis Joxe. The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom. As the delegates met in Evian's cream-colored Hotel du Pare, they had only to look out the window for evidence that Salan's S.A.O.* was still desperately trying to sabotage peace. French security forces prowled the town, armed motorboats guarded the water approaches over Lake Geneva, army halftracks along the esplanade pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively by exploding a booby...
Through the Window. The case upon which the court made its ruling was brought by a Pittsburgh attorney, Thomas N. Griggs, 57. When he bought a 19-acre estate outside town in 1945, it was surrounded by pleasantly rolling open country. Then in 1952, the county built the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. From his bed at night, Griggs could see the planes take off from the end of the airport runway about 3,000 ft. from his house and head straight toward his window, and then rise in a scary whoosh about 150 ft. above his chimney. "I would be wakened...
...trees transformed by snow. He rises, fondly changes his baby daughter's diaper, and carries her downstairs, warmly conscious of the absent-minded pat of her hands on his neck. His wife bustles down and prepares breakfast. While he is eating it, he sees, through a window, a great crow settle on a snowy branch. It seems to him the most wonderful thing he has ever seen, and he calls his wife excitedly. "The woman's pragmatic blue eyes flicked from his face to the window where she saw only snow and rested on the forgotten food steaming...