Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never seen such a big sucker," the cabbie bubbled to my friend and me as we slipped into the back seat. "Twenty-five or 30 pounds. I rolled my window right up when that sucker started to back...
THIS SUMMER in South Africa a Black boy was standing in his room as the police were breaking up a crowd on the street below. A stray police rubber bullet broke through the window and hit the boy, bursting his eye and going into his brain...
While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...
...dressed in her blue-and-gray- plai d uniform, used to stroll down 101st Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, on her way to Our Lady of Wisdom Academy. Ozone Park, then as now, was a neighborhood of two-story row houses with small, well-tended yards, awnings over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly...
...Window dressing industrial targets and unrealistic output schedules are especially dangerous with atomic energy, Oleinik wrote. "It makes reality of the apocalypse...