Word: boxful
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...freshmen referendum voted by a narrow plurality to begin the process of nominating student members for the CRR. Although there was a plurality of 23 votes (out of a total of 600) in favor of sending freshmen representatives to the CRR, more than 100 of the freshmen checked a box on the ballot saying they didn't know what should be done, thereby denying the anti-boycott voters a clear majority...
...mental lapses. Later Hughes began openly injecting himself?often in the groin?with hypodermics rilled with a clear fluid. Stewart and Margulis do not know what the syringes contained, but they observed the effects: Hughes would become drowsy and incoherent. His drugs, "my medication," were kept in a metal box that was always taken with him. Whenever he was flying from one hideaway to another, Hughes would clasp a Kleenex box containing his syringe and would take several shots in a five-or six-hour period...
...style of OPEC. This might seem ludicrous, but the fact is that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent of the world trade in fresh fruits. Their initial goal was to levy a dollar tax on every box of bananas. Ecuador, the biggest producer, dropped out first, and finally only Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward, a group of young officers overthrew...
With these and similar wordings (see box), the Good News Bible, published this week by the American Bible Society, turns Holy Writ into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...
...Badlands. "We were getting along so well," Spacek remembers, "I thought it couldn't last. He was the first guy I ever really relaxed around." The marriage has flourished, despite some rather odd exigencies. During Carrie, Art Director Fisk had to seal his wife in a coffin-shaped box and bury her under several layers of rock...