Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smashed Window. In this area, the economic plexus centering on Kalgan, the Japs built and left largely intact an ambitious and forward-looking economic plant. The Communists fell heir to the prize, which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...
...going and there was the usual round of hellos, did-you-knows, a drink or two, and the many-sided isolation of too many asserted people at one party. In his room there still was the noise of the cheers from the street and the band fading past his window. It wasn't long before he was at his desk again, shuffling pages in an open history book. It was five o'clock on a fall Saturday afternoon, and the team had won a game, and all afternoon he had yelled as loudly as he could and now he felt...
...only place on Boylston Street where you can got a frappe," the merchant exclaimed proudly of his store--Cahaly's--whose cluttered window stands warmly at the end of an almost unbroken row on noon-lighted bars, cocktail lounges, and saloons that provide the last refreshment to Boston wayfarers on the long, cold trip over the river to the Arlington wilderness. "And not only frappes," the aproned entrepreneur continued, vigorously chewing the remnants of a nondescript cheroot, "but boneless turkey, Saturday Reviews of Literature, razor blades shoe polish, and back editions of the Wake--all at the right price...
...this summer, the shop contained a huge sign proclaiming: "OPA Regulations are still observed in this store--Cahaly." Now, even as Paul porter cleans out his Washington desk and prepares to transfer the bureau to the textbooks, the sign still remains amid the crepe-paper decor of a dusty window display...
...looked out of the window and saw a huge gash from the front porch to the dining room. I said, 'We've 'ad it.' My mate, who sleeps in the same room, said: 'We ain't 'ad it, we're still 'ere.' 'E was right. 'Twas then I saw the Union Jack still flying...