Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the strikers, accompanied by women and children, returned to the plant someone threw a stone. Smash went a window. From the pottery building the crowd moved steadily around to the Administration Building, breaking every window on the way. At that point the deputies sallied forth to break up the mob. Women and children fled before a wave of tear gas but the men returned to the attack. Again the deputies sallied forth. Rocks, bombs, clubs, shouts, curses made up the fray. Some deputies armed with shotguns fired on their attackers. After a two-hour struggle the strikers were driven...
Next day in Chicago a man accused of harboring Dillinger during a face-lifting operation jumped to death out of a 19th story window...
...nothing, does everything he is told. At home he shinnied up the brace of the kitchen sink and turned on the faucet to lap a drink. He jumped off the ice box into his father's arms. He crawled up on one of the gratings which guard every window of the Wood apartment and almost fell to the sidewalk. He poked his head through the cover of the radio loud speaker. At the small table where he eats with Jimmy he showed adequate table manners, dunked his bread in his soup, smiled easily at company...
...should complete in 30 days half as many codes as he had pushed through in a year was not wholly unreasonable. Of the codes yet to be made only one or two (e. g. ship-building and anthracite) were important. The rest were small and miscellaneous: gold fish, atomizers, window cleaning, suspender trimming, artificial limbs, cemeteries, drive-it-yourself, button holes, traveling salesmen, ironing board pads...
...Keep your windows closed!" was the next order, to discourage snipers. Dutch troopers enforced it by firing with abandon into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...