Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers get between 35? and 55? for each 90-lb. box of oranges, and it takes a man, wife and couple of children a full week of hard work to make $125. The migrant families average only between $2,000 and $7,000 a year. To qualify for regular unemployment compensation, the migrants must be employed for 20 weeks a year. "Trouble with this short season is there's no way you can get your weeks in," complains Willie McCree, 26, who is now making only about $80 a week...
...with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following page...
...every box score and record book, he is listed as Dummy Hoy, a perpetual recognition of his lifelong handicap. He was born deaf and dumb on May 23, 1862 in Houckstown, Ohio and broke into the big leagues in 1888 when he joined the Washington club in the National League...
...veritable iron man in the batter's box and in centerfield, where he played 1795 games for Washington, Buffalo, St. Louis, Louisville, Chicago and Cincinnati during the course of his career. He led the league in 1899 with 633 at bats and in walks with 1901 and 1891, when he had 119. Altogether he had 2044 hits, which gave him a lifetime batting average...
That flicker became a full-fledged fire 81 seconds later, when Murray Dea picked up a loose puck for the shorthanded Crimson (Hughes was in the box for hooking) and blistered a slapper past Napier from 20 feet out to make it 5-4. Reverting to its skating form of two nights ago, Harvard was making a game...