Word: window
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...embassy. When U.S. troops tried to flush him with tear gas, he started upstairs, spotted the 56-year-old retired Army colonel there, and fired three shots. The guerrilla missed, and Jacobson finished him off with a .45 that had quickly been tossed up to his second-floor window by troops below. That fearsome finale ended the 6½-hour battle. Five Americans lay dead, as did two Vietnamese chauffeurs for the embassy who were apparently caught in the crossfire...
Glimpse from the Window. Wyeth met her many years ago, through his wife Betsy, who as a child had stayed at a house on the Olson property. He became deeply attached to Christina, marveling at her bedrock dignity and pride, enthralled-as perhaps only a painter could be-with the gothic romance of her witchlike features, piercing eyes, and scraggly hair. "To me," he once remarked, "she is the essence of New England-witchcraft. She rules like a queen, absolutely...
...haunting image that Wyeth captured in Christina's World was inspired by an upstairs-window glimpse he had of her, then aged 55, picking berries in a field outside. But to render it was not easy. For months he painted only the landscape and Christina's own house in the background, finally asked her if he might sketch her, drew her arms and hands. "I was so shy about posing her, I got my wife Betsy to pose for the figure," Wyeth confessed. The painting, finished in 1948, was sold to Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
When United Flight 91 nonstop from Boston touched down at Los Angeles International Airport, Copilot Milton Ervine ("Erv") Johnson Jr. noticed waiting photographers. Figuring that they were there to film the DC-8 taxiing to the terminal gate, Johnson impishly mugged it up at the cockpit window for the grinding cameras. Then the cabin door swung open and a United Airlines public relations girl leading a covey of newsmen stepped in. "Commander Milton Johnson?" she asked. "I think that...
Justice Abe Fortas observed that "someone might think it was a form of dissent to throw a rock through a window of the White House." Justice John Harlan pointed out that, rather than being superfluous, the ban on burning or destroying the cards might well be seen as a legitimate way for Congress to ensure that registrants carry their cards at all times. Most definite of all was Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee...