Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cent from the floor while Harvard could only muster a 28-per-cent ratio. The Crimson also dished out a mere four assists, while Yale managed to accumulate 16. And the Elis pulled off three more steals than did the frustrated Crimson defense. Most importantly, Harvard seemed unable to box out and compete under the boards, as Yale grabbed 46 rebounds to the Crimson...
...acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron...
...flawlessly paced and as forcefully persuasive as any of his campaign speeches-which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
...take the matter to the courts. "It was really the last resort," he explained. "The homeless had no friends in government, formed no constituency. Someone had to help." With the support of his firm, Hayes brought suit on behalf of six men, including one whose residence was a cardboard box on Park Avenue...
Radiation safety officials said a cardboard box containing a vial of phosphorous 32 and one of carbon 14 was either lost or stolen last Wednesday. The Diamondback, the university student newspaper, reported last week. The phosphorous is "hazardous" if it is removed from its lead cannister...