Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose the local's president, a rangy, hard-bitten man named "Happy" Kundrock. "Happy" looked out the window where the U.S. flag fluttered above the Pursglove Mine. Said he: "I believe that Old Glory should wave above the tipples at any time. But, as they once said in Pennsylvania, we'll damned well die for you, but we'll be damned if we ever scab...
...with leg openings like prisoners' stocks, so that a patient's body can be kept warm while cold air blows over his feet. Once when a unit broke down and the patient's feet got warm and painful, doctors found him dangling his feet out the window in the Canadian winter...
Peeper. In Brockton, Mass., the dog-catcher got a complaint from a woman that a puppy had been peeking in her window every night...
...Major General Levin Campbell, head of the Ordnance Department, recently wrote a classic general order to his officers: "Whenever a member of the Ordnance Department, regardless of rank, encounters 'red tape' in conducting our business: throw the 'red tape' to hell out the window! If an abundance of paper work is involved . . . deliver first and fill out the forms when there's time...
...clock, 4,000 of them had squeezed into the movie house. They suffered the feature picture while 4,000 more queued up outside. A policeman, pinned against a door jamb, got two ribs fractured and was removed to a hospital. A plate-glass show window fell in, and the crowding jitterbugs shrieked. Thirty more police arrived. Mounted patrolmen wrangled 75 of the under-admission-age children out of the line and sent them home to mother...