Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling away," Howison said, "a bottle smashed a squad-car window." Then it began...
...Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman was pitched out of a ground-floor window and four others were roughed up when a gang of young Negro militants barged into a press conference screaming: "Get the Whitey press...
...famous old name will appear over a San Francisco shop window next fall. On display will be such elegant curiosities as a measuring tape encased in black baby-alligator skin, a champagne-colored leather-lined ostrich handbag, and a wine-colored pheasant-feather necktie. Inside the store, the rich smell of groomed leather will signal devotees of Mark Cross that their favorite New York specialty store has broken out of Manhattan and spread its wares before customers far from Fifth Avenue...
...stay till five, come back at seven and stay till closing. The old TV bought years ago to encourage business after a new highway isolated the place from traffic, is never turned on. Once in a while a stranger will come, attracted by the pasteboard sign hanging in the window: "McNulty's--Next to the railroad potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." The real spuds always have something to say, and its always about politics...
...were flagging, took over affairs of state when he was in the field, followed him through the Andes on horseback with a column of troops, twice foiled plots to assassinate him-and once held off four mutinous officers with her sword while Bolívar escaped through a bedroom window...