Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, it looked as if the only way to get to Suchow was on foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they...
...Grease the Guillotine." He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: "Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow." It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying...
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...Hear It? In Merritton, Ont., Mrs. Ruby Lawrence called all the town councilmen at 4 a.m., had them listen to the cocks crowing outside her window, succeeded in getting action toward passage of an antinoise ordinance...
Working with Conley at Filene's are a BU student who takes the morning shift in the gift department, using the same uniform and pillow as Conley, and a 300 pound man in the window who uses no pillow...