Word: window
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near midnight in Mayfair, heart of London's gilded West End. Rain clouds had driven Sunday window-shoppers home early, not a bobby was in sight, and the drifting squadrons of prostitutes who once crowded Mayfair's shadowy lanes had long since been sent to cover with the enactment of Britain's tough new laws against streetwalking. When a solitary car pulled to a halt in front of the Piccadilly shop of the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' Association, the stage was set for the greatest jewel robbery in Britain's history...
...open a window is like opening a vein...
After changing shirts (one feels so confined in long sleeves) and opening the window (let the noise come in; if Thomas Wolfe could ignore it, so can I), he began to read...
Footsteps ran down the street. A group walked by, singing "and through the open window she hands Charlie a sandwich. . ." Beer cans clattered to the sidewalk. And then, above it all, a boy shouted "Everyone up to a party at Olsen...
Church bells rang ten times. Two motorcycles roared. Someone honked an automobile horn. Gently, the sound of a violin concerto came through Gene's window...