Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope to impose cloture and thereby shut off the filibuster by some of the Senate's most powerful and entrenched leaders. Dirksen is the key to those Republican votes. And he was willing to open the lock -on his own terms. He insisted on some 50 amendments (see box) in the civil rights bill already passed by the House...
...Hiltons in the works. San Francisco's antique building codes gave him a rough time, and now that the hotel is finished, there is much head shaking over the look of it-a gleaming checkerboard of glass and marble that has been compared to a white-on-white box of Ralston...
...Mexico City, where the press of tourism and business requires the U.S. to maintain its second biggest embassy (after London), the new building is a functional, if spiritless, product of Texas Architects R. Max Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship...
...wife but with a retinue of 12 to 16 attendants), a wise hostess juggled bedrooms so that the Prince would be within convenient reach of his current favorite. At his coronation in Westminster Abbey after the death of Victoria in 1901, he ordered the construction of a special box (popularly referred to as "the King's Loose Box") for his past and present mistresses. And what impressed him most about the coronation ceremony, to which all the crowned heads of Europe had been invited, was the glimpse he caught of the "white arms" of the peeresses "arching over their...
Those who objected to the organization of the fast criticized the public posting of lists of those participating, as well as the decision to provide a box-supper rather than an ordinary meal for girls not fasting...