Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast friends, and in 1910, as one member of the family puts it, "they gave each other their sisters." Though in accordance with Arab custom Nuri was not introduced to his bride Naima till the wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri from a window a few weeks beforehand. "He was handsome -just as he is today," says Naima, who has borne him two sons (one of them, an R.A.F.-trained pilot, is chief of Iraq's rail system and airlines...
...every ten practicing U.S. physicians laid aside his stethoscope last week, headed for Manhattan and the annual meeting of the A.M.A. There, 19,469 strong, reinforced by 36,378 medical students, nurses, technicians and other medical-minded kibitzers, they packed meetings at which 400 scientific papers were presented, window-shopped through 700 scientific and commercial exhibits. And a group of 196 doctors, members of the house of delegates, decided what face the A.M.A. should show the public, and what stand it should take on social and political issues...
...later, Rumplestiltskin graduated as puzzled and lost as when he had arrived, still trying to improve his mind in order to define and live the good life. Perhaps too that was why, a few years later, he decided that he was permanently lost, and jumped out of a hotel window in Biarritz in order to define himself...
...regrets" Vag said, viciously drop-kicking a beer can out the window and onto Plympton Street. "Eight years in this town and you're dead. Make that six years. It's the same thing. The same thing happens. This place is just like any small town in Kansas. The same people belong to the Country Club as belong to the Kiwanis and the Thursday Evening" Literary Society. Spend a couple of years in a place like that and you think you're really king of the rock. You know everyone in town and everyone knows you and you think...
...picked up by the AVO "while my hair was still dripping wet" and put in solitary confinement as a spy. Two years later she was moved to the women's dormitory at Fo Utca, where "39 women slept in 14 bunks, breathed air that came through a tiny window blocked by an iron plate. The stench was terrible. For 14 months not a drop of hot water to wash with. In winter the water was so cold that it froze solid. Once, we sacrificed six precious bowls of hot soup to wash our hair...