Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 22, 1899, Boston headlines screamed, "Track Day. Two Continents Await College Games. America vs. England in Amateur Athletics. Fashionable London to Witness the Sport. Fancy Prices Being Paid for Box Tickets. Harvard and Yale are Full of Confidence. Each Side Counts on Three Victories, While Remaining Three Games are in Doubt...
...count was two and two. Spraddle-legged in the batter's box, Yankee Shortstop Gil McDougald figured he was going to have to swing on the next one. In the split second that it takes a ball to travel 60 ft. 6 in. from the pitcher's mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone...
MURDERED! screamed the headline in a two-column, black-bordered box on Page One of New Hampshire's Manchester Union Leader (circ. 46,517). The victim, said the editorial by Publisher William Loeb, was Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. His assassins, said the publisher, were 1) the Communists, who wore down McCarthy's "adrenal and other glands": 2) Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders, "who practically accused McCarthy of being a homosexual on the floor of the Senate"; 3) "piously hypocritical newspapers." In bold-face capitals Loeb added: "Finally, we come to that stinking hypocrite in the White...
...identity of the senior has not yet been disclosed, but it is known that he is not a resident of the Houses. He was arraigned on Wednesday after a box of peyote bearing his name and address was reportedly found in the South End apartment of a high school friend...
...box of the drug was reportedly found in the South End apartment of a high school friend, who is now serving a jail sentence for auto theft. The box, shipped from a mail order house, contained the name and address of the Harvard student, who was then picked up by police...