Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation, was far from a standout performer during its first session (see box...
...army of fans. Hope's early memoir, I Never Left. Home, sold 1,600,000 copies, royalties for which he turned over to the National War Fund. By 1949, his movies-Monsieur Beaucaire, The Paleface, Sorrowful Jones, My Favorite Brunette-had established him as Hollywood's top box-office draw. The next year, he decided to get into TV "before Milton Berle uses up all my material." NBC paid him $40,000 for his first special. That same year, he won a Peabody Award for The Quick and the Dead, a four-part radio documentary on atomic energy...
Watching them with innocent eyes is a theatrical amanuensis (Barbara Parkins) who soon learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself...
...protected the shut-out. Durno and Rumsey stopped several difficult shots, but the Crimson's strong defensive play kept the pressure off throughout most of the game. On a power play halfway through the second period Brown repeatedly came close to scoring, but DeMichele's return from the penalty box marked the end of that drive...
Harvard's futility was underscored at seven minutes of the opening frame when referee Giles Threadgold sent two Cornell players into the penalty box 25 seconds apart. Bauer couldn't hold a pass from Mark, Bauer held the puck too long and had a shot blocked, Mark couldn't control the puck, Flaman let a pass back go over the blue line, Pete Mueller took a shot when he had none, and Mueller couldn't hold a pass from Bauer...