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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 23, 1967, from Missouri state pen. Ray claims he clambered up a water pipe and used a stolen steel hook to yank himself over the prison wall, but prison officials believe he hid in a large bread crate, and escaped in a delivery truck that carried the box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MOLE'S MANY ATTEMPTS | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years and the case of Isaac, which underscores the tenure problems peculiar to Afro, in the judgement of many students and some junior faculty...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A department with no professors | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation to share the royal box at a tennis championship match in Monte Carlo. "Of course I love her, who wouldn't?" asks Junot. But both the suitor and the princess discount rumors of marriage. "There's so much to see and do, and I'm young," says Caroline. Her top priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...since finding a suitable spot where I could await the opening of the doors. In any case, my eyes flitted about the stuffy lobby, packed to the gills with presumably affluent moviegoers who could say two hours later that yes, they had attended the Boston premiere of the prospective Box Office Smash of 1977, Star Wars. So this is how a big commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No sky-scanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Star Escape | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

...Joan of Arc figure that is an unabashed stereotype, as Fisher probably learned as she approached her Princess Leia character, the leader of the insurrectionists. And Lucas undoubtedly never intended Star Wars to be a showcase full of stars, perhaps bearing in mind that some recent releases with similar box office potential did not have to assemble a blinding array of celebrities to turn over a very large buck (Jaws, Billy Jack...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Star Escape | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

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