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  • n  transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle

  • As I passed the carriage, my windscreen shattered, says Porter, 46.
  • That day I had made a windscreen tour of Beirut's Shi'a suburbs.
  • There are bullet marks on three sides of the vehicle, the front windscreen, and on both sides of the backseat.
News & Articles

  • Winterizing: The McCarren Park tennis courts already...
    The McCarren Park tennis courts already got swank-ified with the addition of an Adidas-branded windscreen along Bedford Avenue. Now they're getting heated, lit domes so that the courts will be usable year-round. The domes should arrive in October and will...
    June 12, 2013 - Curbed New York
  • Peloza pitches Rams to third-place finish in 3A baseball
    Sometime soon, there will be a new windscreen going up at Grayslake Central’s baseball field. Kevin Peloza and his teammates are looking forward to that day, when the current screen — which commemorates Grayslake Central’s 2009 state-tournament team — gets an upgrade. “We wanted to replace that sign with something better for us,” the senior left-hander said. “We’ve come a long way. ... We always ...
    June 8, 2013 - Lake County News-Sun
Quotes

  • John Ilhan in The Age
    They started smashing my windows, kicked my car in for discounting phones,Ilhan said. "So here I was, I lost my brother and they'd leave notes on my car, on the windscreen of my car saying, 'Now you're finished'. Now you're finished...
  • Jeev Milkha Singh in CNN International
    We saw the tree and I told my caddy to brake, but instead of braking, he pressed the accelerator and we hit it head on,Singh said. "Lucky the windscreen was plastic and not glass, if not I wouldn't know what would have happened. I had a...
  • Marcus Gronholm in Motorsport.com
    I was lucky to be leading because I jumped badly midway through the first stage,explained Gronholm. "The landing was hard and broke the front right shock absorber and cracked the windscreen. I was angry with myself for making the mistake...

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