Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Splendored. Amid the confusion Joe Martin got the floor long enough for one last warning: "The bill as it stands is a many splendored thing, and like the current movie of the same name, is intended as a big box-office attraction . . . We would be unworthy of our own responsibilities if we pass a bill which we know is bad, and which should not-yes, cannot-be signed...
Meeting by accident across the street from a Tampa cigar factory last week, the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination interrupted their Florida primary campaigns just long enough to exchange a few good-humored jeers. Spotting an unopened box of cigars in Estes Kefauver's hand, Adlai Stevenson asked in mock reproof, "You're not accepting corrupting gifts publicly?" then added, "I got corrupted ahead of you, Estes. They gave me a box at the first factory I visited...
...Gruenther's retirement from his NATO post and active service in the U.S. Army was assigned to "personal considerations." The council agreed with "great regret," asked Ike to name a U.S. successor. The President's choice: U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad (see box...
Right now, his latest machine is on workbench in the Psychology Department's machine shop in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is better described as a device than as a machine. It consists of a small wooden box with several small windows in the top, and a lever in front. Inside, there is maze of pulleys, levers, and chains and an aluminum disk about the size of a phonograph turn-table. It's really very simple, however...
...broke into Mrs. Jeanne Hopkins' home, ripped up linoleum between the living room and the dining room, opened a can of varnish and varnished an old newspaper, made a batch of French toast in the kitchen, baked a fudge cake from a recipe on a Betty Crocker Mix box, stole a ten-inch pie plate...