Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deserted tipple of the nearby Hillman Coal & Coke Co. the Stars & Stripes dropped wanly. Bentleyville's miners, already in their second day of idleness (they had walked out early), were underfoot everywhere, painting and patching their boxlike houses on the still-green hills, playing catch in the streets, window-shopping, lounging in front of the Methodist Church. On sunny Main Street, Bentleyville's housewives hustled through their marketing with a troubled air. Unless Mr. Lewis won or called off the strike in a hurry, Christmas might be merely one of the year's colder days...
After these pleasures, they walked out into the brooding night fog. Quietly, the mine people turned up their collars and started for home-past the fuzzy street lamps, past Harchar's saloon, past the tinseled toy window at Duval's hardware store. In two hours the strike became official...
...quiet night in all precincts. Patrolman Francis De Feis shot at a fur thief in front of Brooklyn's Paramount, accidentally killed an elderly woman waiting for a trolley (and the United Nations never stirred). Longshoreman Willie May was ambushed and shot dead through the window of the men's room in the Four Leaf saloon on Henry Street (and the Moscow press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow...
Around the Square, most shops have been required to drastically reduce or entirely eliminate illuminated window displays during the night, and all night restaurants have had to do without elaborate lighted facades for the duration of the soft coal shortage...
Suppliers of roller bearings, window fasteners, floor mats, etc. were subjected to the same kind of buying he had once practiced at Montgomery Ward's. Examples...