Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond that, a campaign was the one way to whip up the faithful party workers, charged with bringing out the party vote. It was a way to stir up interest among the bored and doubtful, to translate votes on a poll into votes in the ballot box. Above all, it was the great chance for any politician to get out where he could see and be seen, where he could make friends and influence voters, where he could work his political pitch at the grassroots level...
...forward past the gold and white side altars, past the two ornamented Aleijadinho pulpits. The only sound was the soft scuffing of sandaled feet. Reaching the altar, the pilgrims handed their candles to a priest, kissed the recumbent image of Bom Jesús, dropped their offerings in a box beside the altar. Some paused to honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that had seen nothing new since the gold boom...
Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was so bad that observers huddled in the press-box could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire." It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
Backfield coach Davey Nelson will manage Crimson scouts for the season, although he himself will be in Cambridge to handle the rooftop end of the stadium phone between bench and press box each Saturday...
...trouble with documentaries is basic: box office-minded theater exhibitors detest them. They have no name stars. If run on a double bill, they slow up the process of cramming customers into the theaters, and rushing them out again...