Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside, the handful of escort police hung back. Brutally manhandled by vengeful mobs after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...
Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
Stalagmight. In Liverpool, England, thieves scaled the 10-ft. wall of Walton Prison, got inside unnoticed, smashed a window and broke down a pair of 3-in. oak doors to get into the warden's office, cracked a safe, left the prison without attracting the attention of 200 jailers or disturbing the sleep of 900 prisoners...
...Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...
University police discovered a broken window early Sunday morning, and left after finding that a knob had been broken from a combination safe...