Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...shovels had dug a pit 57 feet deep. "Whitey" Blickensderfer, 43, an unemployed ex-sandhog, was lowered into the crater with a partner-little, gnomelike O. A. Kelly, an out-of-work carpenter and ex-miner. By midmorning, they had tunneled to the well pipe, cut a small exploratory window in its corroded sides. Peering in with mirrors and flashlights, they saw a flash of pink 40 feet below at a bend in the old well pipe. There was no movement...
...currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look through the screen as through a window. We want to hear, to see, but also to smell the breeze of the sea, the perfume of flowers and of green pastures...
...Emil Parry, 50, wore the austere look of a doctor of divinity. His manner was grave, his clothes sober and he affected rimless octagonal glasses. One starlit night last week, Lorenzo Parry strode confidently across the gothic, ivied quadrangle of Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion, smashed a window in the administration building and went to work...
Last week, as Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...