Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Box. In Gary, Ind., 77-year-old Arie Meyers was charged with reckless driving on his motor-scooter...
...stage with other Liberal bigwigs, dapper Louis St. Laurent, 66, Secretary of State for External Affairs, nervously fingered his bristly mustache. He was Mr. King's man and the convention's almost certain choice. In a nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...
...quiet morning last week a man crept carefully down a bushy slope on the outskirts of Peoria, Ill., worked his way to within a hundred feet of a-shabby, concrete-box roadhouse. As a man in a chalk-striped suit walked out, he aimed carefully, squeezed off one thunderous shot, and crawled quietly away...
Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
Formally presented to New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer by "Miss California of 1948": one box of raisins...