Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Termites chewed up 228 health-education records stored in a vault at one school, and the window frames in another...
...largest segment (23) turned to public relations. Crime Writer Ray Girardin is now Chief Probation Officer for Detroit's Recorder's Court. Reporter Al Leaderman, an incorrigible $2 speculator at Detroit's Hazel Park race track, is now on the other side of the mutuel window, taking bets. Night Police Reporter Fred Manardo works as an investigator for the National Bank of Detroit. Morris himself managed to land agilely on both feet. He went back to Wayne State University as a journalism student, was hired as a university pressagent...
...When her father and mother finally do abandon the children to seek work elsewhere. Erica is relieved. Now 14, she feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors' charity, she hits upon the inevitable solution. She goes to stand in the window with a ribbon in her hair, waiting for the soldiers to pass by. Never confusing sympathy with sentimentality. Author Vittorini somehow manages to preserve Erica's lambent innocence even as she turns prostitute...
...Marcia will be married in a singlesteeple, knotty-pine chapel built especially for her wedding on her family's Woodstock, Ill., estate. Seating only 17 people, the chapel, which is a remodeled pump shed, has a built-in hi-fi system for organ music and a huge picture window opposite the altar so that guests sitting on the lawn will see the ceremony...
...heard machine-gun fire right behind us," said Dominican Republic Army Captain Zacarias de la Cruz from a hospital bed last week. "The rear window was shattered. The bullets had wounded Generalissimo Trujillo. We carried three machine guns in the car at all times, but the generalissimo had no chance to use any of them because he was too badly wounded. As soon as I stopped the car. the generalissimo jumped out, firing his revolver. Blood was spurting from his back. Seven men with machine guns and pistols piled out of the other car. There was a burst of gunfire...