Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hauling hard-hatted construction crews and materials for the restoration. The Great Hall is a maze of scaffolding. Fans hum everywhere, drying out plaster. Bare bulbs hang down all over. Occasionally there is the frantic sound of beating wings, a gull or a pigeon come in through a smashed window. Here and there is the faintest scent...
...constantly changing." Testrake said he wanted his family and friends to know "that the Lord has taken good care of us so far, and he has seen us through many trying times and will see us through to the end." At one point, a gunman fired through a window to keep other reporters and photographers away. Flight Engineer Benjamin Zimmermann, 45, of Cascade, Idaho, sent greetings to his wife, children and father. Zimmermann, who is a Lutheran pastor, evidently had not been told that his father, the Rev. Elmer Zimmermann, had died in St. Louis four days earlier while attending...
...pushed their way through the crowd and announced to two private security guards, "We've been asked to kill him." When the guards refused to let them inside the apartment, the two men first tried to break open the door; when it did not yield, they smashed a small window and climbed through. No one seemed to notice that the men were carrying something wrapped in newspaper...
...sounds of scuffling emerged, one photographer pointed his camera through the window at a horrific scene: one of the men was holding Nagano in an armlock while the other brandished a bloody bayonet. Moments later the men emerged from the room covered with blood, and announced: "We stabbed him." Nagano lay dead from 13 wounds. Then the two killers, whose motive is still being investigated, calmly awaited the arrival of the police...
Although hairy-cell leukemia affects only 400 Americans a year, Golomb and Quesada point out that it is just one of several cancers that affect a class of white blood cells called B-cells; collectively these cancers strike 35,000 Americans a year. Says Golomb: "This may be a window into a family of disorders." Interferon has already proved useful in treating multiple myeloma, a B-cell-related cancer of the bone marrow that annually afflicts more than 8,000 Americans...