Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully took off their hats...
Croaked one of his hangers-on: "You pulped him, champ-pulped him." The world's middleweight champion scowled back coldly: "Gwan. I licked him with my brains. He didn't think I could box. I showed him. I sure showed him. For a lousy buck, too." A photographer wanted him to kiss the dollar (Rocky's purse for fighting Sonny Home last week in Washington), but the champ's attention wavered. He answered another question: "Yeah, so my timing was off. What...
...used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...
...Grenell has not figured out the basic cause of the dramatic variations; he thinks that there must be some sort of metabolic upset in the brain cells of schizophrenic patients. Last week he was experimenting with his little black box to find out if age, sex, pregnancy or serious illness can affect his readings...
...kill the pretty illusions that have cost so many millions to maintain. The trouble is, the public began to suspect that Hollywood glamor was synonymous with loose living. Some moviemen believe that this suspicion, deepened by the congressional Red hunt last fall, is a factor in the current box-office slump...