Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge fireman tried to save Swamy's notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing some papers out the window. They landed in the snow, however, and Swamy says he will have to wait until the snow melts to find them...
...Window for Complaints. The first results are now ready for viewing, and to celebrate the event, two-time Mayor John Collins (whose term expires Jan. 1) threw a housewarming for 1,500. City Hall is still five months from completion; yet Mayor Collins met with little dissent from local citizens when he boasted: "The verdict has already been rendered by all the architects who have seen it. This is the most exciting public building to be constructed in this country in this century...
...described in Nabokov's term, "poshlost." The reporter self-righteously editorializes: "The Nazis tortured because of a guilty conscience from oppressing Europe during the war . . . In Viet Nam, the U.S. is in the same situation ..." Meanwhile the horrors of battle are shown in pictures as stilted as window displays, the blood stylistically spattered as if war were not war but a magazine color spread...
...kept my eyes open, but the windows in the cab were rolled up. I began to feel for a handle-I felt and felt, holding my breath, until I noticed a little crack in the window. My partner was in the sleeping berth. He didn't have a chance for survival...
...control more firmly than ever the military junta that had seized power last April in a lightning coup. Even if the King or one of his family should be enticed back to Greece by the junta, which seems to feel that it needs the royal family for constitutional window dressing, Greece's 134-year-old monarchy had suffered a setback that deprived it of what little power and prestige...