Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hilde Graf was watching TV last week in her Wichita Falls, Texas, home when a tornado warning flashed on the screen. She rushed to a window and spotted a huge cloud darkening the horizon. With the twister bearing down at about 70 m.p.h., she jumped into her car and raced to the Sikes shopping mall, which she thought had a basement storm shelter. But there was no shelter at the mall, and Graf, along with hundreds of shoppers, cowered on the concrete floors of the mall's stores as the storm struck and merchandise and broken glass hurtled like...
Square in the middle of the dining room is a neon-lit glass refrigerator in which desserts whirl around and around. The wallpaper looks like a hybrid of 14th century French tapestry and Peter Max. And the 50 foot long expanse of picture window glass on one edge of the dining room looks out on a Huntington Avenue cab stand...
Undoubtedly the single most thrilling moment in yesterday's 9-0 Crimson victory came when an Engineer dishman sliced the horsehide into the window of the Heinz building over the street behind the backstop. Really. And the window didn't even break...
...That window proved sturdier than the Engineer pitching staff, however, which served up 12 hits to a line-up of Crimson batsmen led by first-baseman Mark Bingham, with three hits and six RBIs, and outfielder Mike Stenhouse, with four hits and four runs tallied...
...silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...