Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aroused by the sound of gunfire, Ambassador Barros looked out from his of fice window onto the tree-shaded avenue in front of the embassy just in time to see three men and a woman run through the embassy gate. A handful of Dominican cops fired at them. Bullets splattered against the embassy walls, blood trickled down the embassy driveway. In the embassy garden, two men lay dead. The other man and the woman, alive but wounded, were calmly hauled away by Trujillo's henchmen. Brazil pondered breaking diplomatic relations with the murderous Trujillo, as seven other Latin American...
...dust storms of the 19305s; of cancer; in Burlington, N.C. A North Carolina farmer's son who had done Government conservation work for 32 budget-lean years prior to setting up the SCS, Bennett won one of his first big appropriations by leading several Congressmen to a Capitol window, pointing to a cloud of dust, and saying: "There goes part of the Midwest...
Mount Wilson was the world's best window on the universe, and Baade quickly won recognition as a superb observer. His first search was for supernovae, those incredible stars that burst like giant nuclear bombs and shine for a few weeks with the glare of 100 million suns. They happen in an average galaxy only once in about 300 years. But by patrolling distant galaxies with the 100-incher, Baade photographed many of them-and developed an explanation of their explosive physics...
...telescope on Palomar Mountain was finished, and Baade had an even better window to look through. He fought for time on this marvelous instrument, and when he got it, he spent all night in the instrument cage. Every trip to Palomar cost him three or four pounds because of excitement and skipped meals...
...woman that is really hard for me to find is a typist who can read my writing"; stuffing his ears with cotton for days after visiting the house of Beethoven and being reminded of the composer's deafness; walking up 49th Street under Writer Nancy Hale's window chanting "I wrote 10,000 words today"; and finally, lying dead in Maryland, survived by the ringing fact that nowhere in the region could a coffin be found that was big enough for Thomas Wolfe...