Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first scene, a woman slaps her ne'er-do-well son-in-law, who loses his balance and falls out the window of his Maine boathouse. The fatality, as it proves to be, is witnessed by the young man's wife and by a little old man who is hidden in a bunk at stage-left. The death is clearly an accident, but the little old man--Kilbride, of course--insinuates, "Wa-al, you slapped him, and he fell, and now he's dead....Police sometimes nasty about things like that y'know...
...symbol of military success-as the war drew to its close, their habitual reserve melted. Soviet officials went to movies at Spasso House. At official parties Harriman was almost lionized by high officers of the U.S.S.R. For hours on V-E day, crowds of Moscow citizens demonstrated outside his window...
...Janovsky concentration camp, SS Obersturmführer Gustav Wilhaus used to shoot at prisoners from his office window. Once, to amuse his nine-year-old daughter, he "gave an order to throw two four-year-old children high into the air while he took shots at them. His daughter applauded and yelled: 'Do it again.' He did it again...
...Quel malheur . . . another one," sighed Monsieur René Besniers. A jeep had just crashed into the window of his Paris pharmacy. Since Druggist Besniers opened his shop at the teeming corner of rue Dunkerque and rue du Faubourg Poissonière 36 years ago, 108 different vehicles have hurtled into his store...
...Department had asked eight Governments to allow full and impartial coverage of UNRRA's work. (UNRRA has just gone to work in the Ukraine.) Even if the Soviet censors open a branch office at Kiev, as they doubtless will, the press would welcome the Ukrainian move. A second window into Russia might not give sufficient cross-ventilation, but it would at least give a change of scenery...