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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter's China policy the coup of the century or a peep into Pandora's box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...them is by Paul Dickson, 39, a founder of the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law, which is actually a filing box in which he has collected all the useful social axioms he could find−and some useless ones as well. He has published them in The Official Rules (Delacorte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Our Beasts and Burdens | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Backing up the scientific ranks will be 20,000 amateurs with cardboard-box viewers or aluminized Mylar screens sold at fast-food outlets. (Without such precautions, sun gazers risk damaging their eyes.) Some will even usher in the event at a roc-'n'-roll celebration on an old armed forces base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Matter of Night and Day | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Celtics do not succeed in signing Bird by June 24, they lose all rights to him, and he will be picked again -probably first-in this year's draft, which will be held the next day. In addition to his varied skills, Bird has one other box office advantage for pro owners in a game increasingly dominated by blacks: he is white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pure Gold in The Corn Belt | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...with its original cast. If you want to be moved, go see Dick Burton or Larry Olivier. But if you want to have a relaxing evening of shaving cream fight-type fun, go see a Pudding show, any Pudding show. It will set you back as much as a box seat at Fenway for a Red Sox game...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

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