Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What rhymes with ink? D R -." There is a friendly hint about brushing the teeth: "If you do not brush your teeth, they will get dull and yellow. If you brush them, they will be nice and white and bright. Maybe a wild black panther will crawl in your window some dark night and look around for someone to eat, but he won't see you because it's too dark, and then he will see your bright white teeth shining in the dark...
...paintings on display in the drugstore window in the town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., were as bright as a calico dress, gay as an old-fashioned quilt-bustling scenes of country folk doing everyday chores. The artist was obviously untrained, but to Manhattan Collector Louis Caldor, who spotted them and bought them for an average of $4 each, they had a kind of magic. Who had painted them? An old lady of 78, Caldor was told, who lived down on Cambridge Road. She was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, and from that moment until she slipped quietly into death last week...
...with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill. Instead of producing sweaters, they suggested, why not overcome the drastic shortage of curtain lace, a commodity highly prized both as a status symbol and as the only way to secure privacy in a land without window shades or blinds. The trio promptly set to work importing machinery and bribing officials, including the capital's chief economic planner. Thanks to bribes, the lace was sold on the shelves of even the government stores, with the profits going into the pockets of the ring. Last year...
...around the U.S. and to faraway countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items are reordered in quantity; decorators get to work designing store-window displays and interior dècor, order mechanized window spectacles that cost as much as $80,000. Christmas-card makers send instructions to their artists. The word this year: go easy on the kooky wisecracks and stick to religious sentiments with "direct clean statements...
...sheer macabre finesse the honors would undoubtedly fall to one Lowell House student. One crisp winter day not many years ago he tied one end of a wire around his neck and the other to a radiator beneath his fourth story window. When he jumped, the wire snapped tight ten feet from the ground. The next morning when one of the kitchen help came in for work she found his head staring back at her from the top of the entry steps...