Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more effective restraints against corruption, inefficiency and injustice than any secret police...
...return he agreed to announce his availability for a draft. "Drafts come very seldom in this country." he duly announced, "but if a draft should come, I would be greatly honored, and I would accept." A newsman asked whether he was planning just to "sit by an open window waiting for a draft." Replied Rocky: "No. the office is air-conditioned...
Clip Joints. In Detroit, a sign in the window of the Varsity Barber Shop an nounced: "We repair $1. $1.35 and $1.50 haircuts here for $1.75.'' Cowed. In Buenos Aires. Aerotrans-portes del Litoral Argentine canceled all flights to Santiago del Estero. where farmers, despite repeated requests and two near crashes, continued to graze cows on the landing strip...
...call on President de Gaulle and was roundly booed in the Paris streets. When he finally arrived at the Palais de Chaillot for his long-awaited, twice-postponed press conference, the hall was jammed with 3,500 newsmen who overflowed seats and aisles, were perched on phone booths and window sills...
...working days a year through nausea. When efforts to find the trouble failed, psychiatrists and his supervisor set up a realistic performance standard, insisted that he keep to it. The worker warned his boss that the strain would bring on the usual nausea. Said the boss: "Go to the window and throw up, then get back to work." The worker improved so much that he was later made a foreman...