Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kelly volunteered once more, this time to cover the retreat. As the others left, they saw him at a window, methodically loading and firing a bazooka to slow up the foe. When he made his own getaway he slid down a hill, found an abandoned 37-mm. antitank gun, served and fired that at the enemy positions until he had used up the shells on hand. Then he withdrew in good order, eventually rejoined his own outfit. Said Kelly...
...Frigidaires, were investing heavily in the Hearst and other treasures. Most sales were in the $75 to $100 bracket. Most purchases were of antique firearms and vast oil paintings in outsize gold frames. But there was brisk trading in the Hearst antique paneled rooms (complete with fireplaces and window casements) at $598 to $19,049. And Mr. Hammer had hustled down to Gimbels' groaning floor, and confidently expected eager buyers to snap up a Louis XII carved walnut dresser ($269), a pair of carved 17th-Century Italian stone urns ($598), a suit of 16th-Century Pisan armor...
...another street Sergeant Howard Finch (Sheldon, Iowa) found himself in a building with Germans in the basement below. He boldly hung out the window, signaled wildly to an approaching Sherman tank, then jumped back as the tank hurled five shells through the basement window a few feet below...
...escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
Irrational. In Los Angeles, puzzled police held Window Washer Andrew Pat Malone, tried to find out where he really got the 42 prewar tires, 13 wheel rims, 30 cases of canned food and 13 saxophones he claimed that his ration board gave...