Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief case full of work and brought it back in exactly the same condition. His excuse: "On the occasions when I didn't think I was facing the last trump or a dress rehearsal for it, or a sudden reversal of peristaltic action; I was riveted to the window, trying to read the picture book surface...
...called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...
Overtime. In Wilmington, Joseph Andrews, a window cleaner, drew a five-day sentence for after-hour window-peeping...
Nobody dropped water bombs from a hotel window. Nobody set fire to the furniture. There were no fist fights in the lobby, no naked women running through the corridors, no drunks hell-raising in the streets. Delegates to the first convention of the American Veterans Committee, lustiest & loudest of the scores of burgeoning World War II-born veterans' groups, were too busy for horseplay...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, off to Paris, left behind a collector's item in the field of doodlery. Retrieved from his place at a Washington committee meeting was a matchless example of the rose-o window work of the painstaking blastula school, with the later or packing-box influences of neo-cubism only just becoming apparent...