Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room were his rifle, his hunting kit, and his trophies of the chase. He always had live turtles and insects in his study, and Mark Sullivan recalls "the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sent by a friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night and started toward the bathroom in search of water...
...Rejection, One Concession. Armed with this evidence that France has complied with last February's U.N. recommendation to work for "a peaceful, democratic and just solution" in Algeria, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau moved to the attack against Arab nationalists in the U.N. Political Committee (see box). He cold-shouldered Morocco and Tunisia as impartial mediators. The FLN levies its own taxes and recruits young men in Morocco's Oudjda province, he pointed out. Tunisia has made barracks available to the Algerians in Tunis and Souk-el-Arba, transports their men and equipment in government military vehicles...
...gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about to leave. He clutched a box containing a rosary, a souvenir of his visit. The Pope asked him to tarry a moment and asked: "Did you look at what is in the box?" Magnuson allowed that he had peeked. Quipped the most urbane of modern pontiffs: "Sometimes when I give them to Lutherans, they're empty...
...Hands ransacked the headquarters at No. 7 Persian Street; they searched Shoghi Effendi's safe-deposit box without success. All week long they met in secret session, were tight-lipped about rumors of stormy rivalry between two candidates for Guardian-one of them said to be an American. At last they announced the solution: there would be no new Guardian at all, but a nine-man council of Hands at Haifa, titled "Hands of the Cause of God on Holy Land." The new body will have no power to interpret scripture...
...Hedges as vice president under his father, whose company controlled Benson & Hedges, helped boost sales of Parliaments from 100 million yearly in 1946 to 2.2 billion in 1954. On Cullman's recommendation, Philip Morris invested $3,000,000 in packaging equipment to put Marlboro in the flip-top box, saw Marlboro quickly flip into the top ten brands...