Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scuttlebutt. In Kansas City, whoever broke the window of the Sound Radio Service store ignored the four genuine radio sets on display, scuttled off with the only dummy...
Once he led a crowd of Socialist partisans in a raid against Brussels' conservative Nation Belge and with his own walking stick smashed one of the paper's windows. The Nation Bege protected the window with an iron screen (which is still in place and known as the "Spaak grille"). But Belgians found it a little hard to take seriously a young radical who carried a walking stick. They called him "the Bolshevik in the dinner jacket...
Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...
...Driving in from the airport, we were protected by a Colombian Army private with his Mauser thrust through the open window. On the way he shouted 'stop!' got out, knelt on the running board and began banging away at some snipers down Carrera Séptima. When he jumped back in the car, he said: 'I think I got one of them...
...dutiful adherence to habit almost killed him-somebody was waiting with a shotgun in the darkness outside the window...