Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection-they were the most even-tempered, law-abiding team in the whole National Hockey League. This fall the Leafs have turned a brighter, more attractive color. Last week they could point with pride to league leadership in 1) games won, 2) time per game in the penalty box...
...personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...announced: "There are oneway tickets to the minors for any players who get shoved around and take it numbly." Last week none of his youngsters, most of them ex-servicemen, were playing for Lady Byng. Body-checking their way into the league lead, they had run up 108 penalty-box minutes in eleven games...
...suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...
Kathleen Winsor's bawdy Restoration heroine finally got back to her old tramping grounds-and was promptly put to work selling papers. Last week, in a frontpage box, Lord Rothermere's London Sunday Dispatch announced that it would share with its 1,600,000 readers an authorized, serialized version of Forever Amber...