Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busload of Wallace girls rolled by, and dozens of teenage faces peered out through the window and across the intervening darkness to the press bus. The reporters looked back and made rude gestures with their hands and yelled at the girls, and then settled back in their seats and waited for Harrisburg...
...arresting me, Governor?" I asked, holding up my hand with his still holding onto it. "Yeah, ah'm gonna arrest you," he said, and let go. When we got back to his seat at the front, he slumped down in the window seat with his short legs leaning up against the cabin wall, and looked up at me from the folds of his black suit, his thick eyebrows raised, his lips in what seemed to be a sneer--but is really just the way he looks all the time...
...shown a huge equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington being drawn through the misty streets of London like a pagan idol. They've had it made, and now they don't know where to put it, someone explains. The statue later comes to rest outside the window of the senile Lord Raglan (John Gielgud), who complains that "it is very much in my light; I wish they'd take it away." But the shadow of Wellington and his age fell upon all of English society, and above all, upon England's pride and joy, the army--which Raglan will...
...Window. The U.F.T. took newspaper ads to claim that its fight was really against "vigilantism, hate propaganda and terror in the schools." No doubt extremists in Ocean Hill had recklessly and needlessly inflamed the situation. No doubt the union had a point when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
...union teachers cooperated with aroused parents in setting up emergency classes outside the schools. At P.S. 41 in an affluent Lower Manhattan neighborhood, 540 students attended classes in churches, settlement houses and colleges. At the elite Bronx High School of Science, parents and nonstriking teachers forced open a basement window to enter and conduct classes. Parents who did break into schools were advised by Board Member Galamison to "sleep-in to be sure the schools re-open on Monday...