Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
...ever promises honorable conduct during an exam by signing a statement, a practice termed "high-school" and "as ridiculous as the loyalty oath." Nevertheless, few students have been accused of cheating. In the most recent case, four years ago, a girl was reported to have concealed notes in a box of dried apricots. The accusation was never proven to anyone's satisfaction, and the girl graduated from Radcliffe with her academic honor and her apricot box intact...
...Some days ago," he said, planting his elbows on the dispatch box and gravely taking the House of Commons into his confidence, "information came to the notice of the government of Nyasaland of a very serious kind." So serious was it, in fact, that the Governor of Nyasaland had declared a state of emergency. "I have seen the information. I am not in a position to disclose it," said Lennox-Boyd, as the Opposition hooted. "[But], in fact, a massacre was being planned...
...have no money." The cabby summoned a bobby, who steered his charge to Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand: "I thought I was monstrously overcharged." Thinking otherwise, the judge fined her $5.60 for being drunk and disorderly. That afternoon, hiding any signs...
...once earned $15,000 for a single rendition. Vaudevillians Abbott and Costello joined forces in the '30s. Costello was the son of a Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt man. Abbott had sold tickets in a theater box office. Their partnership hit the big time with the 1939 Broadway musical Streets of Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling down as much as half a million a year. Beneath Costello...