Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though Mrs. Truman has survived two fractures of the left hip and one of the shoulder in the last six years. At 7:45 the next morning Harry Truman took off from Washington in the Sacred Cow.* Five hours later he was in his mother's bedroom, a box full of flowers in his arms...
There he ran across a couple of old friends. He told them his mother was "resting easy," and ordered the roast beef blue-plate special (70?). The other customers-a couple of farmers, some railroad men in blue jeans-paid little attention. Two people went on playing the juke box...
...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only 15? and one box...
...comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This puts it up to students themselves to demonstrate, on the one hand, if they will back up lunch-time enthusiasm with action at the box-office, and on the other, if the poll-answerers comprise the bulk of undergraduate theater-goers...
...business" side, where the executive sits, there are (among other wonders): a radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...