Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost precious time because it had 1) underestimated the effects of Britain's decline as a force in Europe, and 2) mistakenly counted on Russian cooperation. The end of the British support for Greece (which left the U.S. in a lonely if Olympian sentry box) ended the first delusion. Moscow ended the second by shunning the reconstruction agencies of the United Nations, by stalling on peace treaties, and by stepping up the pace of Communist movements everywhere. The Russians at last made clear that their rubles were on Western collapse, not recovery...
...Biggest box-office during 1946-47: the previous season's Annie Get Your...
...first time 17-year-old Bob Hansen stepped into the pitcher's box for his Central Valley (N.Y.) high-school team this season, the bases were loaded. He calmly struck out the next three men. Then he pitched two no-hit, no-run games and struck out 34 batters in the process. They were his 26th and 27th victories in a row. So a nice man from the Chicago Cubs breezed into Bob's home town, the sleepy little Hudson River hamlet of Harriman, just ahead of a nice man from the New York Yankees...
Eugene R. Pickera, of Box 149, Route 1, Hurley, Wisconsin, a graduate of Hurley High School...
Henry H. Hilton, III, Box 84, Bedford Road, Lincoln, Mass., a graduate of Middlesex School, Concord, Mass...