Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfy the growing demand for tickets. The waiting list for season subscriptions numbers 7,000. This past season, the backlog of mail orders for individual tickets mounted to 5,000 by November, after which the Met accepted no more, and thousands of opera fans were turned away from the box office...
Jesse Kornbluth's piece in the Harvard CRIMSON was most generous and succeeded in making me look dramatic to myself, no small intoxication when you're my age. It pains me, therefore, to be forced to make one correction. I did not, unfortunately, box ten rounds with Jose Torres. It was rather--I whisper it--three rounds, and I was considerably tired at the end, although in no danger because Torres is a fine friend and took great care of me. In fact, I might have been in more trouble going two with my sister...
...should live according to yourself. But you just feel rank when somebody comes up and classifies and says you are in Box Q or Bag 8. I would like to think I can put my head in more places than just Haight-Ashbury, but when I go shopping I'm still going to buy what I like--costumes, not dresses. Down to the floor and up over the head. Anything wild...
...repressive tenor of the regime ran counter to the wishes of King Constantine, in whose name the officers had seized power (see box). After initially opposing the coup, the King decided to cooperate in an effort to steer the regime toward parliamentary rule, but his hopes hardly seemed justified. Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, the new Interior Minister and a member of the triumvirate that really rules the country, mused to foreign newsmen that in the new Greece there would be a strong executive branch and perhaps no need for a Parliament at all. "We believe Parliament will...
...they the only celebs proffered by the picture. Producer Charles Feldman, apparently fearful of taking a Royale drubbing on his investment, has tried to bolster the box-office potential by casting Deborah Kerr as a mocking-burred Scotswoman, Orson Welles as an enemy agent, Jean-Paul Belmondo as a Foreign Legionnaire and George Raft as himself...