Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After developing his case on the mishandling of the Baghdad Pact and the attempt to rush Jordan into signing it, Gaitskell gripped the dispatch box before him and roared out his indictment of "this ill-judged, ill-informed and badly carried-out attempt to continue what is in essence a paternalistic policy." Urging that Britain should now consider matching its Jordanian alliance with an Israeli treaty, Gaitskell spoke for many Tory as well as Labor members: "We must allow Israel the arms to balance those received by Egypt from Czechoslovakia...
...been running the gaudiest one-man show in Brazilian politics, Sáo Paulo's millionaire ex-Governor Adhemar de Barros has plopped in and out of hot water like a boardinghouse soup bone. Opponents hinted freely at slush funds, financial skulduggery, and the existence of a "little box" filled to overflowing with bundles of boodle for political pals. Even last year, when Adhemar (as all Brazilians call him) was running for the presidency, he faced a charge that, while governor from 1947 to 1951 he had passed out 3,000,000 cruzeiros' worth of Chevrolet cars...
...state abounding in race tracks and bettors who also vote, Maryland's Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall has long found political expedience a pleasure when rubbing shoulders with his constituents in grandstands and boxes. In recent years, reported syndicated King Features Columnist George Dixon, Bettor Beall has applied a "wisdom of the ages" in a totally unscientific system that has won two spectacular daily doubles. Five years ago Senator Beall slapped down $2 on Nos. 5 & 6, lit up himself as the tote board lit up with news that he had won $780. Asked a man in the next...
...Living Right Kit is a handsome blue and white box containing five filmstrips, five LP recordings and five discussion manuals on five subjects: Right Choice, Right Attitude, Right Counsel, Right Outlook, Right Leadership. The kits were designed for the use of discussion leaders, who are instructed to organize gatherings of laymen, run off the problem-posing filmstrips and the accompanying recordings, then turn up the lights for a discussion of how best to play the often tricky game of weekday life. The discussions, not the kits, are supposed to supply the answers...
...only the prototype of even better computers that will be capable of running entire factories. Tomorrow's great brain will start up machinery, feed in raw materials, switch from one product to the next as orders come in, convey parts to assembly lines, put them together, inspect, box, band and load finished products into freight cars and trucks...