Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
...Airport, with its cargo of the worst baseball team in the big leagues. The Philadelphia Phillies had just won a game. But the lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan advised his mates, only half in jest. "That way, they can't get us all in one burst...
...nutria.* Already the coypu has overrun an estimated 40,000 acres in Norfolk, Sussex and Essex counties, and is munching its way inexorably northward. Its appetite is inexhaustible, and by no means limited to farm crops: a Great Yarmouth farm wife recently complained that coypus were boldly gnawing her window frames, and in some East Anglian river towns, coypus have been known to free boats from their moorings by chewing through the lines. The National Farmers' Union sets England's coypu population at 250,000 to 1,000,000-an estimate necessarily vague, since coypus are active breeders...
...Sciences in Moscow. But more and more, he found his works unpublished (including a treatise on platinum refining for which he won a Stalin Prize), his laboratory equipment and his living conditions inadequate. A widower, he was forced to live in a one-room basement apartment, whose single window overlooked a truck parking lot from which exhaust fumes poured into his room. "It is the lack of human dignity in the U.S.S.R. that hurts the most." he said. "I was depressed by the lack of contact with the outside world, the falsity of information, and the difficulty of self-expression...
...Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three floors just to be sure. But two or three hours later, the thieves somehow climbed up the lighted, ornate façade of the museum,*sneaked through a small window on the second floor, spirited away six canvases from one gallery and two from another while Mme. Martial-Salme and her husband slept a few yards away. Wailed the show's organizer. Leo Marchutz, next day: "Cezanne would be furious if he were alive...