Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballots, each bearing the symbol of a ticket and photographs of its presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Election officials carefully instructed him to enter the polling booth, select the ticket he wanted to vote for, insert it in the envelope and then drop the sealed envelope in the ballot box. The voter was to tear the other ten tick ets in half and insert them in a refuse box. The same procedure was followed with the Senate slates, except that the voter had to choose six ballots out of the 48 available...
...quick nor an easy process. Voting in Saigon's baroque city hall, Thieu timed himself and found it took three minutes. Candidate Huong nearly invalidated his own vote, and was caught just in time by a peeking poll watcher as he started to insert his ballot in the box without its envelope...
...box which caused his endless mirth...
...warning Ho Chi Minh on the eve of the South Vietnamese elections that a willingness to negotiate should not be mistaken for any weakening of resolve. Whatever the reason, American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements, SAM sites and the Hoa Lac airfield -where the North Vietnamese had rigged up mock MIGs and painted bomb craters on the runways to fool the American flyers. The phony holes were quickly turned into smoking facts...
...everything in America; if it isn't toothpaste, it is soap." As for the theater, it has become "terribly lightweight." Worse, a U.S. actress is all too often typecast: "Here it is the personality that they like, more than the performance. People popped all of us into little boxes. If they wanted someone to be a bad woman, they opened the little box marked Bette Davis. If they wanted a saintly woman, they opened the little box marked Ingrid Bergman...