Word: box
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...done a very good job heading off what could have been a very difficult situation,” Poterba said. “I think in his handling of the financial developments of the last few months, he’s shown the capacity to think outside the box...
...Princess Margaret and Bond girl Ursula Andress as fans. In the '70s, when his work in textured yellow gold and raw emeralds, sapphires and opals became even wilder, Jacqueline Onassis became a convert. His most significant client, however, was the Queen of England, who still reaches into her jewelry box for old favorites. Last year she chose to wear a striking Grima brooch of rubies and diamonds, created for her in 1966, to read her annual Christmas speech...
...mother," Obama told me recently, "I think that there was a certain combination of being very grounded in who she was, what she believed in. But also a certain recklessness. I think she was always searching for something. She wasn't comfortable seeing her life confined to a certain box." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...spent her high school years on a small island in Washington, taking advanced classes in philosophy and visiting coffee shops in Seattle. "She was a very intelligent, quiet girl, interested in her friendships and current events," remembers Maxine Box, a close high school friend. Both girls assumed they would go to college and pursue careers. "She wasn't particularly interested in children or in getting married," Box says. Although Stanley was accepted early by the University of Chicago, her father wouldn't let her go. She was too young to be off on her own, he said, unaware, as fathers...
...Even by the standards of 1961, she was young to be married. At 18, she dropped out of college after one semester, according to University of Hawaii records. When her friends back in Washington heard the news, "we were very shocked," says Box, her high school friend...