Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times. It did not cloud his affability or brake his brisk manner of disposing of business across his desk. Newsmen who jampacked his press conference noticed: 1) Harry Truman had switched from summerweight double-breasted to a medium-weight flannel double-breasted suit; 2) his work-to-be-done boxes were stacked high; 3) there was another box on his desk, filled with emerald green match folders. The President indicated the folders, remarked that he was not supposed to be looking. Deskside reporters grabbed the hint and the matches. Across the folders was printed: "I swiped these from Harry...
...mother, father, sister, brother and son had died in the gas chambers of Oswiecim. The accused were 45 men & women who had worked at Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps, now being tried under a warrant from His Britannic Majesty by a British military court. From a plain wooden witness box in the center of the converted gymnasium which served as courtroom, day after day, witness after witness added to the compendium of horror...
...young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
...Network sportscasters will use the regular radio studio in the Stadium press box, facilities not employed since the Harvard-Yale game in 1941 was broadcast by a commercial network. If its Tufts broadcast is considered successful, the Network will continue its football coverage for at least the next three or four Varsity informal games...
This underground bistro has since become the Ken Club, where such bands as those of Red Allen, Bill Davison, Gene Sedric, and Frankie Newton played in the period from Pearl Harbor until early '44, after which a new entertainment policy featuring a juke box was adopted...