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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over telling the American student that his name is being considered is surely impossible. An anonymous letter should be sent by the professor engaged in the covert recruiting to the student he believes suitable for CIA work, asking for an affirmative reply to be returned to a post office box if the student wishes his name to be forwarded. In this way, the student's name should not even reach the CIA if he does not wish it. Covert recruitment of foreign students, on the other hand, must be opposed on grounds of intelligence efficiency, civil liberties and morality. Strict...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...When Becker tried to explain to Nixon that accepting the pardon was an implied confession of guilt, Nixon wanted to talk instead about the Washington Redskins. When Becker left, writes Ford, Nixon pressed on him a pair of cuff links and a tie pin "out of my own jewelry box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ford's Memoirs | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...division champs from Chicago had any pride, they would not even accept the first round bye. Eleventh overall, seven games under .500 in divisional hockey's equivalent to double-A ball, the Black Hawks have Tony Esposito between the twines, Tom Lysiak at center, Bobby Orr in the press box, and not much else. In fact, nothing else. Say good-bye to them in the quarters...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: NHL Second Season to Open Tonight | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

Despite Harvard's total domination of the first period, it was the Quakers who scored first. With Faught in the penalty box because of severe hallucinations by the referee, Penn's aggressive sophomore middle Dave Papenfuss collected the first of his two goals on a high, hard screen shot...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Pacify Quakers, 8-6, for First Ivy Win | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...young Israeli named Shlomo Tal. Jaroslawicz took along his pouch of diamonds one day in September 1977, when he went to call on Tal. The young Israeli and an accomplice were found guilty of murdering and robbing the broker and stuffing his body, wrapped in plastic, into a wooden box in Tal's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamonds Are Forever | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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