Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went on: "The Russian tactics in Africa are like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
...with strange half-English and half-German phrases. The preposition out became an active verb: "I out the pudatoo-ta" (I throw out the potato salad). Potato could be said in 30 different ways. Linguists, speech pathologists and educators hoped the twins' private communication would offer a rare window into the mysteries of developing language: How is it balanced between genetically programmed neurological functions and environmental stimuli...
...they would find the Silver Slipper Restaurant, "Home of Limbo Patties, Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest--but harder still to avoid, since everyone in Dudley Station seems to know where it is. The place opens every day for breakfast at 5:30 a.m., stays filled with customers until after noon, and finally closes after dinner...
Mary Lee Bossert, co-master of Lowell House, said, "I looked out of my window and I saw the headlights coming down the stairs very quickly." "The car was driving very fast and very wildly," Roderigo Garcia '82, another eyewitness, said yesterday...
Strolling along a row like a window shopper on a summer day, Kevin Johnson stumbles across a coincidence much to his liking. Pointing to the first name on a marker, he commands Martha Hale: "Lay down, Martha. You're dead." The joke, Martha decides, is meant kindly, and she joins in the laughter that scatters over the scene like the sunbeams through the moss-fringed trees...