Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definitely not! TIME is too busy presenting to its readers such items as: The Bomb & the Man, Death & the Ballot Box, Shallow Peace, Anti-Climax, End of the Line, Crime & Punishment, Death & the General, The Wilted Flowers. . . . You editorialize with: "There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year . . . that anything could be done. . . . The feeling was abroad that . . . even presidents [were] mere foam flecks on the tide. In such a world," you sob, "who dared be optimistic...
...purpose of this particular box is to show the continuity and motivation of the various columns. All madness has a method, and the popular denunciation which has greeted these remarks has shown that the method is not clearly understood...
...year-old veteran was lifting a packing box when he suddenly felt everything "let loose" in his stomach. When he lay down he didn't feel so bad, but the minute he stood up, the old feeling came back. At the Chicago hospital, he complained of severe, knifelike pains in the abdomen...
...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...