Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News and then passes it along, it is not hard to foresee a time when the Student Government, finding itself in opposition to a policy of the News, would feel obliged to use its financial power to "convince" the editorial staff. Freedom of the press flies out the window. There are already many instances of such conflicts between interests controlling the finances and interests controlling the editorial content of college newspapers. And the News in its last two compulsory years has no great record of independent thought; our paper has been noticeably unwilling to take firm stands in opposition...
Tradition is piled heavily on the back counters and pulls in more customers than would any flashy window display. Back in 1934, the manager decided to feature the store itself, not individual drugs, and now the front is marked only by a mortar and pestle. Hanging over the door is a signboard with the number 1360, which some think is the date of construction. But Billings and Stover, though one of the oldest stores in the Square, makes no pretense of antedating Ponce de Leon. His over-sought youth-restorative is one drug they still don't have in stock...
...meetings. "They had a technique," he says. "They'd gradually move forward as if absorbed by what I was saying. Then they would ask increasingly menacing questions. When they had you against the wall, you were in their hands. I developed a habit of talking from near a window, with the window at my back. That gave me two advantages: I could see the faces of my enemies, and I could jump out of the window if they reached...
...Gasperi succeeded Sturzo as leader of Italy's Christian Democracy, ran up against Benito Mussolini. Mussolini forced De Gasperi out of the window. His party was banned and he became, like thousands of his fellow Italians, an outlaw. He was jailed twice. His health broke. In 1929, Pope Pius XI gave him a post as Vatican librarian at $80 a month. To eke out his salary, he gave language lessons, occasionally worked as ghostwriter for foreign correspondents...
Meanwhile, police drove up silently and captured Dresser at gunpoint. They discovered his footprints beneath the dining room window...