Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courtroom where for 32 patience-grinding weeks eleven Communist leaders have been on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, defense lawyers melodramatically moved for a mistrial. They charged that the pudgy, moonfaced man occupying seat No. 2 in the jury box had flagrantly violated his duty as a juror. At the very least, the defense added, the juror should be removed from the jury...
...have no band, but they like music. A phonograph continually grinds out cowboy dirges, swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race, Doc Weaver scoured record shops until he found another record of Mirandy-and the Cardinals kept it spinning while they tied Brooklyn for the pennant, beat them...
Take a Small Box. What the bee hunter needs first of all, says Edgell, is a small, double-chambered, glass-windowed box with a hinged lid ("One's first task is to catch a bee"). In the box he places an empty honeycomb which he fills with sugar syrup just before he goes into action...
...experienced hunter brings his trap box up sharply under a sitting bee, e.g., one busy on a milkweed bloom, and slaps the lid home as "he" tumbles in. (Edgell explains curtly: "There is nothing feminine about a working bee but its anatomy. 'She' is 'he' to me.") This bee and about a dozen more are maneuvered into the rear chamber of the box...
With that assurance, Tate &. Lyle went ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...