Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear Gizenga assassins under his bed-and also asked U.N. protection. When he finally ventured out of hiding, he was still nervous. Startled by a commotion in the hall outside his fourth-floor office in Bukavu's Riviera Hotel, he leaped for the window; friends had to restrain him from jumping out. One day last week Anicet Kashamura quietly vanished, and was last seen speeding down the road toward Stanleyville in the custody of Gizenga's agents...
...There seems to be just one thought in the minds of pedestrians-to go on from queue to queue, from the one that stretches behind the bus stop to the one that lines up in front of a stubbornly shut shop window, where dried fish may or may not eventually be dispensed. Peking's buses, always crowded, have for the past few months been fitted on top with huge canvas cylinders: to save gasoline they are now run on natural gas. Never since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1949 has poverty been so widespread...
...green soda truck with a driver to make heads turn-big, bespectacled and full-bearded, beneath a round, wide-brimmed black hat. When he turns off the highway into a community of modern Cape Cod cottages, the friend who greets him on the roadside or waves from a window might be his double-big beard, black hat, black coat and all. This is how men look in New Square...
...Yale swim tickets were distributed with exceptional inefficiency. First, the time of the distribution was not adequately publicized. Secondly, to get tickets it was necessary to cut morning classes. Thirdly, all transactions were carried out through one window, despite the fact that 400 students were waiting in line...
...fishing newcomers weren't hard to find. Miss Amy Dalrymple was the first to discover the Wharf's potential for residential purposes, but she was soon followed by dozens of Bostonians eager for a window on the sea. The 75-foot-long rooms were divided into 25 by 50 foot spaces, especially useful as studios and flats for artists, writers, and Bohemian seekers of the unusual...