Word: windows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seven years since the fighting stopped. North Korea has become some-thing of a showcase (with plenty of window dressing) for Communism in Asia. Pyongyang (pop. 800,000) has a Stalin Allee just like East Berlin's, a vast opera house and a vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan...
Basis of the modern funeral industry is elaborate embalming, featuring "that alive look." This, says Jubilee, "has enabled corpses to look more and more like window-display mannequins, and visitation with them has become quite popular." According to one big-city undertaker, "people generally come in the afternoon and go out for dinner and come back...
...anybody ventures to differ with me, I throw them out the window...
...wasn't so sure about the chances of Tom O'Connor, the Democratic candidate for Senator, whose picture is blown up in a headquarters window. The Globe has an ad today put in by an independent group in Spring-field that's gonna hurt him on his claim that he reduced taxes." He lowered his voice: "Besides, he's been hitting Saltonstall pretty low. A big mistake. You don't attack a gentleman like that. You know what I mean...
Grolier's Min-Max is loaded with a "program" of information and questions and answers that instruct the student as he works. The first question appears in a window at the top of the box, and a blank space is provided in another window for the student to write out his answer. When he is finished, he inserts his pencil eraser in a vertical slot, moves the page up until the second question and the answer to the first appear in the window. The paper cannot be moved backward to find the answer first...