Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back from Algiers in a Fortress, after the shuttle raid on Regensburg late last summer, by three sergeants who paid 400 francs ($8) for the little beast. As expected, Lady Moe panicked the home base when she stuck her ridiculous hairy head out of the waist gunner's window as the plane landed. British health authorities were not amused, but eventually gave the animal a clean bill...
...walking wounded limped toward the diner. The mental cases walked slowly behind them. They laughed and chattered, stopping at the windows along the way to stare and stare again with a hungry look. . . . Half an hour later, well-fed, they limped back to their places, all aglow. Resuming his place at a window, a soldier said: 'I gotta keep looking back. I keep thinking maybe it will fade out, like a movie...
...people who have wondered: Joe (ISpellMyNameinCode) Prychodzin pronounces it "Sicodgin" and would have you do likewise. . .Things one wonders about while being scooped: What is the choice One who watches Dog in its daily trek back from the gym. . .you know, the doll who frames herself in the store window, fotches a comely smile while the boys hold Rossi in ranks...
Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...Bank. When George and Helen returned from their Florida honey moon, Lydia was trying to remember that the mortgage was due on the old Walsh home. She sat at her desk by the window and wrote down, "Bank account: $68.03." The Brazilian bonds she had bought for $3,600 were now worth $313.64. She owed two quarters payment on the principal, plus $150 and interest: at least $750. She talked stiffly to the banker, whose bank had recently passed quietly into the hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could...