Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money-with three months still to go in the fiscal year. Thus, while the House was still listening to Clarence Cannon's cries of bluff, Summerfield issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post Office windows on Saturdays, 3) drastically cut Post Office window hours on Mondays through Fridays, 4) limited downtown business-mail deliveries to two a day, 5) placed embargoes on nearly all third-class mail beginning next week...
They adored each other, aped each other ("twin costumes of silk and velvet . . . identical flowing black ties"). Their quarrels were fiendish. Their cook, looking out of the window at 2 a.m., might descry Mummy, "her pink nightgown streaming behind her, rushing headlong down 97th Street toward Madison, screaming: 'I'll throw myself under the first streetcar!' " One morning, when she appeared with arm in sling, her right eye bruised she explained grandly: "I stumbled over a champagne case in the dark...
...bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed-in world of his backyard. As he watches her from behind a curtain, she becomes a half-real apparition every man has known: "She was the girl seen...
...weekly L'Express, which has been attacking French army excesses in Algeria (TIME, April 1). Some shouted, "Mendès to the gallows"; others cried, "Down with Mollet." They carried placards: "Are Our Deputies Still French?" A grenade exploded, a paving stone crashed through the big plate-glass window of the L'Express building, and steel-helmeted riot police moved in, clubs swinging...
...seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller's window, pay phone and light bills to the same clerk. It is only when the Negro 'sets' that the fur begins to fly." Urged Golden: "Provide only desks in all the public schools of our state; no seats." Though the lawmakers passed up Golden's suggestion, readers ordered...