Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kierdorf (impersonating a federal officer, armed robbery), before him. As business agent of the 5,000-member Local 332, Kierdorf used brutal methods and produced satisfactory results. Once he tried to run over a stubborn employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf was successfully negotiating one way or another with every type of company, from sausage makers to rug layers. He might have enemies angry enough to roast him alive...
...spectacles consisted of two stones called Urim and Thummin set in silver bows. No one but Joseph ever actually saw the golden tablets-he explained that it was instant death for anyone else to see them, and he kept them covered with a cloth or locked in a box whose hiding place he changed frequently. He deciphered them behind a screen, from which he dictated the Book of Mormon...
...waited-as they had waited for two days-to kill Lebanese Premier Sami Solh. The sirens of Sami Solh's motorcade escorting him back to town from his mountain villa sounded down the canyon, and one of the men set his hand on the plunger of a battery box whose wires led down into the trunk of a disabled Ford parked beside the narrow road...
...selling one's clues in midshow for a $1,000 consolation prize. The prizes are all highly consoling, from Bergdorf Goodman minks to tickets to the London production of My Fair Lady, not so much to see the show as to pick up one night's box office receipts (dollar estimate: $5,700). A super-prize is being mulled: an entire island off the coast of Scotland, complete with railroad station, stores, homes and a small hotel. After that-Bert Parks...
...Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering...