Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-ranking Communists, gathered to watch the King make one of his rare public appearances and hear Prime Minister Petru Groza make one of his frequent speeches. Dutifully, the Communist clique gave Groza a resounding welcome. But it was silent when the red plush doors of the royal box flew open and the King strode in. Erect, unsmiling, he sat alone in the huge box, listened impassively as Groza took credit for the coup himself and pointedly failed to mention even once the role played by Michael...
Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...
...Chicago Teamsters' Joint Council had gotten two special trains, all Pullman and air-conditioned, to send its 188 delegates to the Teamsters' convention in San Francisco. Each train had a special bar car-a freight car, fixed up inside with bright paint and a sort of juke box. In one car alone there were 352 cases of Blatz beer, about $25 worth of pretzels and popcorn and potato chips, cases and cases of coke and soda...
...dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who had prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp flogged at her pleasure and who had made gloves and lamp shades from their skins after they died of torture...
...long weekend of July 4 sent a vagrant wind through the rigging; aside from that, Variety reported unalleviated box-office doldrums. The best draws...