Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guinea would find itself in serious difficulty, Ndongo moved into the President's office, after doing his best to assure himself of military support. The assurances proved illusory. As Macias now tells it, Ndongo became so frightened when Macias returned that he leaped from the office's window and broke a leg. Ibongo, also in the office, was arrested. The coup, without a leg to stand-on, collapsed...
Nathan put down the phone and looked out his office window. The sky was bright blue...
Mirna didn't say anything when he brought the little plant into their apartment that summer. She just looked him in his twinkling eyes and let him know that she wasn't about to ask why he brought home a potted plant. He placed it on the window sill and gave it a little water. Each afternoon when he came home form work, he watered the plant. Toward the end of August, he removed the plant from the pot and put it in a wash tub. A week later Mirna said...
Earlier in darkest night, when the voices vanished, he had crept from the bed. Visions fell from him and hovered where he had lain, buzzing softly next to Mirna. He felt tremendously alone as he tiptoed to the window. Here he practiced ego loss. The yellow street lit luminescence of the drapes sucked his face in and he looked out. A bear drove by in a station wagon. A great big bear's smile left a trial of light. We're in a city, he thought. Us, the walls, the bear, the streets. Our poorly schooled soul looking through...
Later Scott stood up and was at the record player. Some records were put on. Nathan was still silent; he stared at the drapes across the window. Mirna and Mildred sat quietly side by side, their arms touching, and they talked occasionally...