Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweep and immediacy, the shock wave of looting, arson and outrage that swept the nation's black ghettos after Martin Luther King's murder exceeded anything in the American experience. By week's end, 168 towns and cities had echoed to the crash of brick through window glass, the crackle of the incendiary's witch's torch, the scream of sirens and the anvil chorus of looters. Yet one sound was remarkable in its very diminuendo. The fierce fusillades of gunfire that exacerbated the disorders of years past were heard only rarely last week...
...speed tests. But to my credit they were all correct. As we walked down to the second floor's commander I began to suspect that my effort didn't impress Captain Johnston. The second floor commander was more cheerful but then he had a window open...
...swiftly converged on the motel in response to the shot. In doing so, they missed the assassin, whose weapon (a scope-sighted 30.06-cal. Remington pump rifle), binoculars and suitcase were found near the rooming house. A spent cartridge casing was left in the grimy lavatory. The range from window to balcony: an easy...
...result of mounting public pressure, the state prosecutor launched an investigation into the 1948 death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. The official explanation of Masaryk's death was that he had committed suicide by jumping to the pavement from his third-floor bathroom window. Researchers in recent years have collected considerable evidence indicating that the Communists shoved Masaryk to his death. The liberals are determined to examine all available details of the case...
Balanced Footage. Back in Manhattan, secretaries and vice presidents and every newsman in town, including CBSs John Laurence, on home leave from Viet Nam, poured into the network headquarters. As ABC-TV News Veep Bill Sheehan put it,"a lot of union rules went out the window" as staffers fell to without regard for jurisdistional niceties. ABC's three-man orbituary unit hastily updated its canned footage on King, and CBS's Charles Kuralt narrated a 20-minute pretaped orbituary covering King from childhood...