Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
...auditorium to capacity. On the stage, the speaker's table was covered with the green, white and red of the Hungarian national colors picked out in wild flowers. Everything looked peaceful enough. But the local secretary of the Freedom Party was worried. As he took me into the box overlooking the auditorium, he said: "Yesterday the Communists sent down a truckload of agitators from Budapest to organize things for this meeting." He pointed out a group of 150 men bunched together, halfway down the side aisle. They looked tough, all right...
...Freedom Party secretary came dashing into my box. His eye was cut and his mouth was bleeding, but he shouted triumphantly: "We've taught the bastards a lesson...
...Four days later, Blackwell had another no-hitter in his grasp. Then with one out in the ninth, Brooklyn's pesky Eddie Stanky bounced a single through the pitcher's box...
...lonely wife (Ann Sheridan) who concealed her unfaithfulness from her husband (Zachary Scott); and of the anguish that ensued when he found out about it. Such a story, honestly told, could have had the customers on the edges of their seats, and could have made a fortune at the box office. But that was too simple. The Unfaithful tells it in the complicated or Hollywood...