Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time TIME & LIFE saw Paris, it was from the back window of a French Renault - last car in a baggage-bulging cavalcade of seven in which 24 of our news people, a child with chicken pox, and two dogs lit out of the city just one jump ahead of the Nazis...
...trains, operated by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, collided at 2:20 a.m. The crash woke Albert Kellett and his wife Ruth. Kellett threw back the covers sleepily and looked out the window. Lights were glowing strangely in the fog over the railroad right of way; soon he began to hear men screaming in the dark fields. Then the boiler of one of the locomotives blew up. Kellett telephoned for help and ran out into the night. Some of the airmen were crying for morphine; others stumbled aimlessly through the blood-spattered wreckage...
Standing at his window the night that World War I began, Sir Edward Grey had said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life time...
Bing Crosby, in England on a U.S.O. tour, was mobbed by London admirers. He escaped into a restaurant, appeared in an upper window, stopped all traffic by singing Pennies from Heaven...
Counterattack. In desperation, the Goldwyn forces finally built a platform outside the El Patio ballroom. They hoped to get around the fire laws by showing the movie through the window. McNeil-Naify promptly threatened to bring suit because the platform blocked the sidewalk, and took splashy newspaper ads to point out that Reno moviegoers must now suffer the indignity of "uncarpeted floors . . . the whistle of freight trains . . . static in the sound system...