Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hung like a shadow around her home neighborhood. One day he poked a gun in her ribs, drove her to a mountain resort where he kept her stripped for three days. He pleaded to let him come back. She refused. One day, a shot ripped through the kitchen window of his wife's home and hit her in the thigh...
...this one memorable broadcast, television proved that its window on history was almost as clear as the newsreel's, and far closer in time. Telecasters bragged that they would soon be opening their window on bigger & better sights; RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the 1948 presidential campaign would be televised. But unless television got a move on, few in the U.S. would see a political or any other kind of telecast...
...common men as much alike as possible in pay and social position the world over, the Times chose not-so-common railroad engineers ("theoretically, they see life from the same level-the locomotive-cab window," were above average in pay, but average in viewpoint). The answers filled 16 columns, added up "generally on the melancholy side, with only a faint edging of hope." Excerpts...
When many people find a window broken in their homes, or new cracks in walls or ceilings, the chances are that any blasting going on within a fifty mile radius will get the blame. Every year, thousands of irate householders file complaints against blasting companies claiming that the vibration and concussion from their operations has damaged their property...
Some startling facts have been brought to light through Leet's seismograph tests. In order to break window glass by concussion, charges must be fired in the open air, a most impractical thing in quarrying operations. Window glass must be subjected to pressures of 1 1/2 lbs. per square inch to break it, whereas air pressure at a few hundred feet from a quarry blast are 1 to two-thousandths of a pound per square inch, the same as those produced by a light summer breeze...