Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Walls vanished. Men vanished. Living, clothes and flesh torn off, ran screaming, blindly, through an eruption of debris and live steam. In company-owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, typing, entertainment positions, chorework, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic...
That Jimmy Cox had been fighting his inquisitors when he was hurled from a window was proved, said Mrs. Cox, by his last words. As she held him in her arms, he kept struggling, yelled over & over: "Hell! Hell! Let me go! . . . What do you want? Blast...
...with the U. S. Army in France in the Medical Corps. For the past 17 years he was professor of bacteriology at Harvard, periodically traipsed over the world in pursuit of his typhus research. He once caught the disease himself, was restrained from jumping out of a fourth-story window, he said, by a devoted nurse...
...know what lay beyond the last door. But he said that the imminence of death had made his perceptions keener and lovelier. "When he awoke in the mornings," he wrote of himself, "the early sun striking across the bed, the light on the branches of the trees outside his window, the noise of his sparrows, and all the sounds of the awakening street aroused in him all kinds of gentle and pleasing memories of days long past...