Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They discovered a two-foot by three-foot box three feet below the surface at midfield and disconnected a device that would have triggered fire extinguishers full of paint...
...views sit easily with members of the diocese. In a column written for the weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking to the dead priest's shoes. - Jane Estes
...brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively, of the department. Witnesses told Mostert that the Rhoodies had illegally used government funds to subsidize an unprofitable South African newspaper, finance a $6 million movie that flopped at the box office, and traffic in diamonds. In addition, the Daily Mail has charged that the brothers conspired with a right-wing American publisher to try to buy the Washington Star. All of these activities, the press hinted, were known of and approved by Mulder-and perhaps other ministers as well...
Mostert's report suggests that the Rhoodie brothers lived very well at government expense. In one instance, the report says, they allocated $9,200 for a private box at Pretoria's rugby stadium, ostensibly for use as a secret meeting place; only the brothers and their families ever attended a game. Deneys Rhoodie, who racked up more than 200,000 miles in government-paid travel in one six-month period, was described as billing the department for a New York-to-Los Angeles flight for the purpose of "evaluating the services of a typist...
...violent comic vitality that only rarely spreads to his direction and writing. Like the rest of the film, the star is at his worst when he lays on calculated doses of sentiment and sensitivity; at such times, Stallone seems more in touch with imagined demands of the box office than his own instincts. True, his sloppy side eventually buries the movie, but deep within Paradise Alley you can hear an original comic voice struggling to burst out. - Frank Rich