Word: window
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...window I stand...
...tiny enclosure, he will be surrounded by an atmosphere of endurable temperature and pressure. He will have food and water in case he feels like eating or drinking, and a two-way voice radio will keep him in touch with the ground stations. There will be no window for him to look out, but an "optical display" (undetermined) will give him a kind of indirect visibility. If anything goes wrong early in the ascent, he can fire an escape rocket that will bring him back to earth, with luck, before he has climbed too high...
...attention a decade ago. Donald Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into the dawn. Michael Goldberg's Summer House looks more like a frost-adorned window in the dead of a winter night, reflecting firelight against the dark outside...
...benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...Sleep sets the tone for most of the other stories by introducing Author Herlihy's obsessive interest in the "foetal" world of prehistory, when the "gray vapor-covered earth" was ruled by "giant serpents and tiny-headed monsters." Weeping in the Chinese Window describes the cruel seduction by a tiny-headed monster in human form of a spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck...