Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around Capodistria, Carmelo and his refugees were sweating out the arrival of nightfall in a cottage when there came a knock at the door. Carmelo ordered the refugees out the back window, calmly opened the door, tossed out a grenade, slammed the door and escaped through the back window himself. To a father who had to leave a ten-year-old boy behind, Carmelo pledged, "You'll get your son back." Seven months later he raided a detention camp deep in Yugoslavia, found...
...German connections, foreign operatives in Portugal did their best to frighten Windsor with cooked-up tales of Churchillian vengeance directed against him through Britain's intelligence service. An ominous warning was slipped into a bouquet of flowers presented to the Duchess. "A firing of shots . . . through the bedroom window," wrote the German minister to Ribbentrop, "scheduled for the night of July 30, was omitted, since the psychological effect on the Duchess would only have been to increase her desire to depart, [but] through steady undermining of their sense of security, the Duke and Duchess were strongly influenced...
When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration...
...motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water and thus projecting the wave motions on a paper screen...
...nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara Fritchie. "Here's the flag, Barbara, so stick that old grey head out the window." Says Barbara: "You pay me the money first, then I'll stick the old grey head out the window...