Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowds from gathering, Syria's salute to its extinction seemed more subdued. But citizens voted heavily-twice as many cast ballots as in any previous election. They also voted publicly, and one NBC cameraman photographed the same voter marking four different ballots before stuffing them in the ballot box in a Damascus mosque. By official count, only 386 of more than 7,400,000 who voted in the two countries cast ballots against union. Only 452 said no to Nasser as the United Arab Republic's chief of state. By this count Nasser won 99.994% of the vote...
...during trial of a libel suit brought against the Herald by former State Attorney George A. Brautigam, the Herald's longtime Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp, 61, bragged from the witness stand about his paper's vigilance, turned to the judge and cautioned: "We are keeping a box score on you, your honor." The jury's score: $100,000 damages for Plaintiff Brautigam...
Ticklish Volume 40 of the new edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, the volume containing the latest box score on Joseph Stalin, was published almost two years behind schedule and in the wake of its 48 companion volumes. Joe's spotty career is now trimmed down to five pages and one picture-a wholesale pruning in comparison with the previous (1947) edition's fat 59 pages and 14 pictures. In the new version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice...
...First Person Plural Dagmar, now 58, presents a jaunty flashback to the splendiferous silent days "when money was thrown to the winds [but] always landed right back in the box office." Publicity departments "[made] us all creatures of fantasy" so that Theda Bara tried to live up to her studio's statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam...
Cargo Manifest. In Louisville, after two youths snatched her black corduroy bag and police asked for a list of its contents, Millicent Stevens obliged: "A New Testament, one pen-ball pen, one blue-lead pencil, one double salt-and-pepper shaker, one small plastic box with green sample inside for upholstering, two Band-Aids, one Atom Bomb perfume, one string of safety pins, two bottles of partly evaporated milk, some books on health, a few religious tracts, three packs of APC tablets, and, above all, one tan dress coat, a $24 coat of my grandson...