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Word: boxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anoutlandish, outrageous, totally wacko gift forsome zany friend? Go to Good's (Faneuil Hall).Their collection includes wind-up walking sushicomplete with chopsticks, AM coffee cup radios,lava lamps, and blow-up dinosaurs. To break up theHong Kong routine, try Good's x-rated fortunecookies, $4 a box...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

Although the Crimson was out-rebounded by a slim 31-30 margin, it was the squad's inability to box out for the second straight game which played a major role in the defeat...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Stuff Cagers in a Squeaker, 87-86 | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

Harvard's amazing success at the foul line (21-for-22) was somewhat neutralized by its failure to box out on a number of key B.C. free throw misses...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Stuff Cagers in a Squeaker, 87-86 | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

Having expected the shooting to "be seven weeks of hell," Mailer has, to his surprise, enjoyed it (and anticipates finishing it on schedule next month). "I like working with actors." And vice versa. "I think he wrote the part with me in mind," says O'Neal, who remembers boxing occasionally with his current boss. Now "he beats me up a lot worse than he ever did in the gym." Mailer is frankly hoping for a box-office success so that he can direct again. "I think I needed a vacation from writing," he observes. "Oddly enough, directing a film, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...million Canadians had had their wallets lifted -- credit cards, IDs and all. Revenue Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Breach of Confidence | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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