Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President had a special feeling about TIME. In the study of his penthouse suite in the Hotel Carlyle, an alert New York Times reporter recently noted a white White House phone, a box of Havana cigars and that week's issue of TIME. In Washington, the President got his copy early, and sometimes within an hour was on the phone to our White House correspondent with comments-wry, appreciative or angry -on what had been written about him. He said on several occasions that he regarded TIME as the most important magazine in America, for it reached the kind...
...number of the others withdrew. Booth nervously bided his time until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken and cut a small peephole through the wood...
Lincoln's only guard was drinking at a nearby tavern when Booth struck. While the audience cheered and hooted over a slapstick line in the play ("Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal-you sockdologizimg old mantrap"), Booth slipped into the box. With a shout of "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants!] " he fired a shot from his derringer into the back of Lincoln's head. He slashed his way past Lincoln's companion leaped ten feet to the stage and, with a broken shinbone' hurtled himself past startled...
...acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
...count, but that's all." He says, "Construction and prostitution are the oldest professions-and neither has evolved." He says, "The floor of a building can be level, but all the rest must be movement." He says, "I am disgusted with architecture," and he scoffs at glass-box modern houses because they are "contrary to the purpose of housing, which is to go back to the womb...