Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third coach, hooked on a bridge abutment, dangled crazily at 80°. Down in the second coach, Broker Land, a nonswimmer, drifted to a small air pocket at the top of the coach and filled his lungs. "What a lousy way to die." he thought. Then he found a window, kicked it out, and surged suddenly up to the surface and a helicopter's rescue line...
...foot broken. Trainman Joe McDonald struggled to the door of the first coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom of the bay. So did Attorney Fisch. Dead, too, were Engineer Wilburn and Fireman Peter...
...soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart of Paris. Trigger-happy police began shooting down dark-skinned Italians and Portuguese in the belief that they were Algerian...
Supper consists of a couple of Joe 'n' Nemo's hamburgers at two for a quarter--plus a carton of coffee which serves as mouthwash and handwarmer. Through the window he watches Boylston Street humanity and the Western demise of the sun. Harold has been known to mumble a few words about the weather to either Mr. Nemo or the corner cop--but they are measured words...
Through her parlor window she has watched the world build and the buildings crumble; neon signs, sound trucks, street-cleaners, and bums. She has blessed armies and saved tin cans, and occasionally knitted a sock, in private...