Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score readers? In the 19th century, before the practice began of lowering the house lights during performances, people read the newspaper between arias. The latecomers? A hundred years ago it was normal to come late. The early leavers? During performances, people used to visit each other noisily, and ogle box holders with opera glasses from the main floor...
...Southeast Asia, the pause and the diplomatic offensive had done much to convince skeptical allies and neutrals that Hanoi, not Washington, was barring the way to the conference table. But that was about all it had achieved-and at the same time it opened a Pandora's box of problems...
...Yorkshire pudding of his own making. British political polls had recently recorded an erosion of support for Wilson's Labor government, and things were not improved by the usual irritants of winter. All in all, it was a bad time for a test at the ballot box, but Wilson had called a by-election in the Yorkshire seaport of Hull, where in 1964 the Labor candidate had won by a mere 1,181 votes. Should the Hull seat be lost to the Tories, Wilson's majority in Commons would drop to a single vote...
Direct Nuclear Hit. Little is left to human error. Should no one notice a major development, or should a number of seemingly unrelated minor developments signify trouble, electronic brains set off flashing lights, ring bells, and sound other assorted alarms. On one switch box where alarms are manually triggered, a NORAD operator has already taped a crude sign: "Don't push buttons. It makes a real offensive noise...
...five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...