Word: windows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shack, she wrote down the vivid details of slum life, filling 26 notebooks gleaned from trash piles. To her neighbors, this seemed putting on airs. While Carolina was out tramping streets, one slattern would regularly empty her chamber pot into Carolina's window...
...industrial era in the 1960s. No facet of living-or of manufacturing-has escaped the restless minds of inventors trying to devise newer, cheaper, faster or better ways of doing things. Some are as simple and gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when the teeth are not brushed correctly; some are as awe-inspiring as the purposeful arc of Echo threading its way through the stars. For the housewife, the worker on the production line...
...last month, in the middle of a lacklus ter summer, Jacksonville's Negroes were moved to try again. The demonstrators got no help from local whites, and tension mounted. A pair of Negro youths, running from the cops, accidentally knocked an elderly white woman through a plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into a hair-pulling match, and the town boiled over. In a sudden rush of business. Sears Roebuck sold 50 ax handles in 15 minutes. Sit-in demonstrators on their way downtown were met by a club-wielding mob. By the time...
Even this was too much for the Communists. It was window dressing, cried the Moscow press and radio, and beneath the smiling surface, sinister Vatican plots were being hatched. The Reds issued a four-alarm warning that priests, monks and nuns in civilian clothes had been detailed to mingle with athletes and officials from the Soviet and its satellites to persuade them to defect. According to Moscow's daily Trud, a special receiving center for defectors had been set up in a monastery outside Rome, and "thousands of clergymen and monks and young people from the lower echelons...
...Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods of the stair rails. Johnson calls his 1957 Boisson-nas house "my first non-Miesian house." Gone is the "flowing space" that made one room run into another: "Here you go from room to room with doors that close." While the International Stylists tried...