Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensate for his restlessness as a diplomat, whose functions included those of intelligence operative, he began to write fiction. The Foreign Office forbids its staff to publish under their own names; Cornwell claims to have seen the name Le Carré ("the square") on a London shop window, though the shop was unlisted in any city directory. "Perhaps," he admits, "it's a lie I've come to believe...
Lance is not likely to be queuing at Safire's window any time soon. Despite his fondness for the now defrocked Budget Director, Safire was one of Lance's most relentless journalistic tormentors. The columnist began writing about Lance's alleged financial improprieties in July, and a week before Lance bowed out Safire even conjured up an eloquent, 946-word television address in which the President announced that Bert and LaBelle were going home. Carter used...
...Lucy Seward, fair kind maiden, is wasting away mysteriously in her father's sanatorium. Plagued by nightmares, the girl wakes paler each morning. (An example of the excruciating mental processes: The girl has two tiny cuts on her neck. Wolves howl on the moor. Bats rustle in the window curtains. "We suspect the wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance (tall, freckled, devoted) and Dr. Van Helsing, a colleague...
...night before the bout DiNicola was out on the town with a friend and he remembers, "I looked at the newspaper in a drugstore window and there was a full page story on the guy I was going to fight. You know. 'Willie Adams has eyes on Olympics and is 52-8.' I was all flipped out but I knocked him down in the second round and won the Carolina Golden Gloves...
...door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They kept on beating him, said Ortiz, as they drove off to headquarters. He was booked for assaulting the police-and indeed is to be tried on that charge in Philadelphia's common pleas court this week...