Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with an air of responsibility, as tf they were intercepting some immediate attack by sheer power of verbiage. But few of them agreed on anything and few knew how the bombs looked, whether they hissed slightly before exploding, or whether they had to be kept in an ice box. Also it was a well-known fact that the same parties got excited about toe dancing...
Composed mainly of former Harvard players, the rugged B.A.A. team was superior to the Crimson sextet in every department, not excluding the ability to get into the penalty box...
...winery, along with Di Giorgio Fruit, has fallen on the heirs apparent to the fruit empire, four of the childless little king's nephews. All told, they boss dozens of enterprises (orchards in the Sacramento Valley, a cannery and 8,000 acres of citrus groves in Florida, a box factory in Oregon, etc.), which netted $4,212,000 last year...
...nation, businessmen agonized, like Laocoon, in the coils of strikes, shortages or price troubles. Overall U.S. production was down to the levels of 1941, and the manufacture of many consumer's goods far below that. Last week Civilian Production Administration Boss John D. Small gave the latest box score on the output, and a miserable story it told. In January, before the steel strike had hobbled industry, the U.S. had turned...
...Then he would try to sneak out the East or the West entrance, just to fool me. Everyone on the staff cooperated with me and tipped me off, so I was always able to catch him. One day I turned the tables on him and hid in the police box on the East side. He came out of the engine room, up the East steps, and passed right by me. I' fell into position behind him. When he reached the gate he turned around with a look of glee on his face. 'Good morning, Mr. President...