Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flat. Like a bullet, he was gone. And-boom-so was the new terminal. Only splinters were left of more than $10,000 worth of glass; the whole north wall was smashed; tiles fell from the ceiling, and insulating material poured to the floor. Door frames, window frames, and even structural beams were twisted. Damage...
Metzger ate twice a day (he lost 4 Ibs.), read the Bible, watched TV through a window in the 7-ft. diameter cone, slept only six hours a night but made up for it by lying on his back some twelve hours a day, doing nothing at all. Sheets of potassium superoxide absorbed his breath, removed the potentially poisonous carbon dioxide and released the fresh oxygen that he lived on all week. He came through so well that the space doctors are now at last ready to try the test in the weightless condition of actual space, first with animals...
...France's Citröen Prestige, a luxurious version of Citröen's front-wheel-drive sedan. Intended to be chauffeur-driven, the Prestige has a dividing window, intercom system, deep-pile carpeting and rubbed-walnut trim, sells for $3,940. Another new Citröen: the eight-seater station wagon, which sells...
...Hawaii last week tourists were telling the story of a woman visitor awakened by noises outside her hotel window. When she complained to the manager that "I didn't come to Hawaii to get a room next to a pile driver," he replied: "Madam, nowadays all the rooms in Honolulu are next to pile drivers...
...must try to escape from the city, set up a constant watch at each of the Damascus gates. There followed the first of the many escapes that make Paul's life something of a Biblical thriller. Under cover of darkness, he was smuggled into a room with a window in the city's outer wall and then let down in a basket to make his way safely to Jerusalem and his first meeting with Peter and James. Soon he returned to his home town, Tarsus, where he stayed for about a decade until Barnabas brought him to Antioch...