Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Replied Vandenberg: "If the Senator is asking me to disclose the plans of the Executive ... he has applied at the wrong window. ... I know of no bargains that war has. I think that peace does have a bargain once in a while. Perhaps [ERP] is one. I am irrevocably of the opinion that it is well worth finding...
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...John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: 'Calvin's dead, Aurora.' " TIME told how the stockmarket, shocked, had fallen and then "closed with a brief little rally -a farewell salute to the man whose name has been given...
This operation is, in practice, considerably less rigid and more fallible than it may look on paper. The researchers' dots do not eliminate all error, though the system catches scores of mistakes every week. Writers "freeze up" on stories and stare out the window for hours. Editors get impossible ideas that waste the time of writers, researchers and correspondents. Even the managing editor sometimes gets a literary allusion wrong...
...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...