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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Becker says he has turned down politicians' requests to use his black box behavior modification. But if he can invent one, so can others. Then there could be messages like "I will vote Democratic/ Republican/Fascist." The black box should be outlawed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...will fuel brush fires in academic journals and little quarterlies for years to come. Considerations will be reconsidered, opinions re-opined. At this moment though, Barth looks like a magician who has described too fully the trip wires up his sleeve or the spare tiger dozing fitfully in a box just offstage. As he talks on and on, piling analysis upon explanation, the audience slowly files out. If Joyce's Ulysses was the milestone of modernism, Barth's Letters may well be its tombstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Funhouse | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Angels refused to quit. Reliever Mark Clear held the Birds in check while his team rallied in the late innings, knocking Flanagan out of the box...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds Take Second Game, 9-8, May Eliminate Angels Tonight | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...cure for the gold plague will not be easy to find. It is even difficult to tell just who is buying. Some orders are placed with agents of agents or through post office box corporations in Liechtenstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Glitter That Is Gold | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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