Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once the citadel is stormed, the need is not for happy warriors but a good housekeeper; the welfare state needs to be run, not won. Successful British politics today consists in capturing the middle, and Hugh Gaitskell, more than any other Labor leader, is fitted for that appeal (see box). He has little interest in the panacea of nationalization long urged by Bevan. For him Socialism is a matter of fair shares and equal opportunity. And as much as any Laborite, Gaitskell shares Winston Churchill's conviction that the safety of the free world depends on the firm friendship...
Reluctantly, Field Marshal Harding ordered a search for hidden weapons in more than a score of Greek Orthodox monasteries and nunneries. An army spokesman refused to "say at this time whether the nuns were frisked," but a monk who was carrying an icon-engraved box containing two revolvers was arrested...
Lapping It Up. Dorle's years in the concert business have sharpened the Sorias' musical taste, and Dario's residence in radio row has sharpened their box-office sense. Most records originate with EMI, but "I get ideas," says Dorle...
...Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make a killing at the box office...
...Hollywood, while Wladzui Valentino Liberace was explaining why his movie, Sincerely Yours, was a box-office bust ("high admissions"), Humphrey Bogart was explaining why his latest movie, The Desperate Hours, was not a box-office bonanza: "Maybe it was because of the dignity label on the film-they didn't let people know it was a gangster film. Maybe it's because of momism these days, and no one cares if pop is in danger of having his head bashed...