Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contributing Editor John M. Scott said he expected to be called to lifeboat drill. There were some cries of alarm and many squeals of delight: Books Researchers Joyce Haber and Ruth Brine found themselves in a cozy, five-window corner office that hung over the city like a B-36 turret...
...started pilfering and stealing cars for joyrides back in his early teens. But his first serious run-in with the law came when he was arrested at 16 on a charge of auto theft. Taken to Los Angeles' juvenile hall for a medical examination, he scrambled through a window, jumped into a truck, drove it up to the wall surrounding the place, climbed atop the truck and escaped over the wall. Arrested at 3:30 a.m. next day while looting a drugstore (inexplicably Chessman piled all the cigars in the middle of the floor and broke whisky bottles over...
...Listen, Peter," the voice says, "you're no good. Why don't you jump out the window, Peter?" Trembling, Peter rummages through the wastebasket, runs his tongue feverishly into the necks of the three empty bottles he finds there. Then he sees it on the floor-a quart bottle three-quarters full of bourbon. But a gleaming white boa constrictor is coiled around it, nicking its forked tongue...
Simple Interest. In Alexandria, Va., any dog accompanying his owner to the drive-in window of the Alexandria National Bank gets a free dog biscuit...
Drive One, Work Two. The trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...