Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAUTION, PLEASE! admonished a crudely painted sign across the store Window. I AM YOUR SOUL BROTHER...
...Welfare. Complaining of hostility on the part of welfare workers and arbitrariness on the part of the department, about 30 MAWs locked themselves inside, announcing that they would not move until they had talked with Welfare Director Daniel Cronin. When police came to remove them, one woman screamed, a window was broken, and the crowd outside went on its mindless rampage...
Emergency Solution. Coal miners near Wilkes-Barre scurried 300 ft. to the surface when fans that dissipate dangerous fumes failed. Two window washers spent two hours and 18 minutes outside the 16th floor of the Farmers Bank Building in Wilmington, passing the time waving at office girls in the building across the street. In a darkened Philadelphia building, where a federal committee to study ways of handling emergency situations was in session, its nine members solved their own by walking down nine flights to the street...
Only three-fourths of Israel's reserves were mobilized when war began. Now the radio read out the code names of the remaining units: Love of Zion, Close Shave, Men of Work, Alternating Current, Open Window, Good Friends. Throughout the tiny nation, youths and middle-aged men scrambled into the streets, half in uniform, half in mufti, bundles and knapsacks thrown over their shoulders as they headed for their prearranged secret rendezvous with buses...
...little fire. All but blinded by the smoke, Tower groped his way to the bathroom, wrapped a wet towel around his face and yelled for help. The hotel's soundproofing tabled that motion, so the 5-ft. 5½-in. parliamentarian resourcefully slammed the table right through the window and down into the street 26 floors below...