Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white woman jailed at the same time on a forgery charge testified that she saw Treloar walk into the cell and hit Daniel "ten or twelve times" with a club. Another white prisoner testified that on another occasion the sheriff caught Daniel "hollering out a window," clubbed him "three or four times." Respected Dr. Maubry McMillan, summoned at midnight to treat the stricken Daniel in jail, said Treloar told him: "I had to tap him on the head." Another physician testified that Daniel died nine days later of a brain hemorrhage...
...Liberal intellectual with a talent for adroit political compromise became President of Colombia last week, ending five years of military rule. The tricolored sash of office flashing across his starched shirt, Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, 52, stood stiffly through an enthusiastic 21-gun salute that shattered a Capitol window. He listened gravely to aging (69), ailing Conservative Senate President Laureano Gómez, who struggled to his feet to read the oath of office. Lleras Camargo answered, "I swear," and democracy was back in business...
...every night. They also filled in at the backstage bridge game when the regular players were on stage. This game lasted through the entire run of Antigone, in a Sunday School room that was commandeered for the offstage area. The noble and stately queen of Thebes climbed through its window every performance with un-middle-aged skill. One spectator had a few uncomfortable moments when he saw the spotlights hung over the audience with almost invisible string, but he was reassured when he learned that the string was nylon and could hold five hundred fifty pounds...
...dealer still said no. So Marcella alerted the Houston Post to send over a photographer, then drove to the auto showroom. There she rammed her Chevy through a 3-by-10-foot plate-glass window and right into the side of a shiny black $6,000 Lincoln Continental. Damages: $2,300 to the building and the Continental, $1,000 to the Chevy, a cut lip for Mrs. Norman. The enraged company manager signed a complaint charging Mrs. Norman with malicious mischief. She posted $400 bail, airily said Metro could "go ahead, sue, I'm broke," and went back...
...office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman who liked to sit in the window of the Carlton on dismal days in order to have the pleasure of "seeing it rain on the damned people...