Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hilltop-Mountain-Eagle, which was Bell's hometown newspaper and came once a week. Every day the newspapers stacked up outside their door, and for the first three weeks they lived in Winthrop House, to these were added yesterday's Times, Globe, etc., because their entry mates thought the box they put outside their door for the delivery boys to drop the papers into was some sort of newsprint recycling collection operation. This ended when Bell, after working his way manfully through what he termed "that mad dog fascist, William Safire's column" for the second...
...another. In "Black Breakfast" Michael Mao and Elizabeth Mallinckrodt cavort on and off, first mindlessly motioning like rock dancers, then dressing up to parade as nobility. They end dumping their pile of costumes on the head of Sally Lewiecki, who throughout lies inertly on a black coffin-like box, showing us only her chalk-white face and her hands gesturing like non-human flesh...
...grandly welcomed by Prime Minister James Callaghan "on behalf of the whole Continent." The President responded warmly by emphasizing "the special and very precious relationship" between the U.S. and Britain. He dramatized those ties the next day when he visited Newcastle -upon-Tyne, ancestral home of George Washington (see box...
False Premise. Amid all the misstatements and warped points of view, even on such irrelevant matters as his role in Eisenhower's dumping of Aide Sherman Adams (see box), Nixon clung to the false legal premise that a crime is not really a crime if the motive is pure. He insisted he had committed no crime or impeachable act. Yet unconsciously, he actually admitted the latter. "As the one with the chief responsibility for seeing that the laws of the United States are enforced, I did not meet that responsibility," he conceded. That very failure...
...life-style was typical; so, too, was the rigid insulation of his family from his life in the rackets. At home, a Mafioso cultivates the image of a solid, churchgoing, charity-supporting citizen (see box). On the job, he keeps up a flashy front by wining and dining associates at expensive restaurants and resorts. Nearly every important Mob figure sports a well-kept mistress at gangster affairs. The dichotomy of Mafia life was nowhere seen better than at a flashy Manhattan restaurant where mobsters used to entertain their wives and children on Sunday afternoons and return in the evening with...