Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently in ninth place in the American League, will hold down Fenway Park at intervals during the summer. Prices range from $1 in the bleachers to $3 for the best box seat...
...bill itself was highly controversial. For the proclaimed purpose of holding down surpluses and thereby reducing the costs of price-support programs, the bill would have clamped on U.S. farmers a system of production and marketing controls far more extensive than any yet seen in U.S. agriculture (see box). On this basis, it was opposed by many farmers, and therefore by many farm-district Congressmen. The American Farm Bureau Federation denounced the bill as "folly" and fought it tooth and nail...
After whetting Muscovite appetites with some spicy excerpts from Dr. No, which is now being filmed in Jamaica, Izvestia devoted a black-bordered, two-column box to a character assassination of Fleming, who is President Kennedy's favorite mystery writer. Reported the paper breathlessly: "Fleming prides himself on his knowledge of espionage and villainy. His best friend is Allen Dulles, former head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who even attempted (but unsuccessfully) to try methods recommended by Fleming in his books. Obviously American propagandists must be in a bad way if they have recourse to the help...
...spend to get attention. He cultivated Elsa Maxwell to make sure that he met the right people, kept a regular Monday-night box at the opera...
...have to move. The old queen can't man age the steps." And so Mr. Biswas, ex-sign painter, ex-bus conductor, ex-journalist, achieved his heart's desire and moved into a dwelling of his very own. It looked "like a huge and squat sentry-box," he paid too much for it, the upper floor sagged, the windows would not shut, one door would not open, but it was a house...