Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury...
When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...
...from under--at Harvard, say--is truly alarming. Lost, she turns to the local women's club, gardening, bridge, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what her children were like a few years ago. And then, on the second Sunday of May, comes Her Day, and with it a box of chocolate brandy delights. Ah, mother-love...
Many different Symposium speeches, starting from widely diverging points, ended at this same central problem: the influence of New York's critics on the nation's music box-offices, and consequently on the lives of musicians. One suggested solution--musicians should be amateurs, and earn their bread by other means. Another--to decentralize American music in various ways, instituting more purely local artists, thereby cutting some tentacles off the New York critic-octopus. There were also countless proposals for improved criticism, for broadened criticism, for more criticism, and for less criticism...
...were everywhere, often fully armed. ... It showed, too, in many little incidents-the nervousness of a Russian official when our American interpreter wanted to carry her camera on a Sunday afternoon outing; the unobtrusive little men in blue serge suits who kept turning up in the back of our box at the opera . . . the embarrassed refusals of nearly everyone whom we asked to our rooms for a chat and a cup of tea. ... It is a fact of pointed interest to Americans, since it is shaping-or warping-the entire Soviet foreign policy...