Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last summer Woody Diehl spent a lot of time in front of the picture window in the spacious living room of his wood and brick ranch house staring out at acres of corn stunted by drought. When the Diehls and eight other local farm families met with Carter next morning over coffee and rolls baked by a neighbor, the costly effects of central Iowa's drought were on all their minds. The group also discussed federal disaster assistance for farmers-Diehl himself will be eligible for payments this year-and the Administration's proposed feed-grains set-aside...
Whatever the motive for arson, the result is fright and despair among inner-city residents. Says Dorothy Maeda, chairman of Humboldt Park's arson committee: "It's a terrifying feeling never knowing when you go to sleep at night whether a fire bomb will come through the window." Along Boston's once elegant Symphony Road, where fire has gutted 29 of the 74 apartment buildings in the past four years, tenants live in constant fear of flames. "Everybody around here is jumpy," says local resident Sadie Ellis. "Whenever I hear sirens I turn the radio down...
...game that attracts him as poker seduces a compulsive gambler, but Lavette never forgets that he is just the unmannered, uneducated son of an immigrant fisherman. The Depression is therefore a kind of blessing for Lavette, because it stops the game. Instead of jumping out of the window of his office to splatter on the streets of San Francisco when stock prices begin to plummet, Lavette, after a stint as a bum, leaves his business suits in storage and contentedly returns to the life of a fisherman, the life his father and countless generations before him had known...
Bernard Tierney, Leverett House custodian, said the thief probably entered through an open window after the grille closed at 1 a.m. early yesterday morning...
Holy the Firm follows Dillard's monastic routine - teaching, musing at her window, walking to a village store to buy Communion wine for her church - and transforms it into a metaphysical journey...