Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois, tacitly acknowledged, in the famous letter that Harry Truman never has forgiven, that he would clear out "the mess in Washington." The Adlai Stevenson of 1956 must have suffered a considerable lapse in memory when he opened up his Pandora's box on the corruption issue...
...Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...best way to avoid this misadventure is "loft-bombing," which uses the speed of the airplane to make the bomb behave like an artillery shell. The airplane is equipped with a "black box" of gyros and electronics named LABS (Low Altitude Bombing System), manufactured by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full...
...thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella had jumped a good yard out of the catcher's box before Pitcher Roger Craig got rid of the ball. When they bothered to look, the Braves discovered that they had won 8-7, had taken back their one-game lead...
...British usually do very well done very badly. An attempt to duplicate the agonizing authenticity of such films as Breaking the Sound Barrier, it parades plot and props (including an enormous mocked-up spaceship) that could have been scissored by a small boy from the back of a cereal box. Its improbabilities do not begin or end with an unlikely character named Lefty who appears to pen notes with his right hand...