Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within ten days, it will finally end a struggle that brought power shortages, curtailed business hours, and threatened mass layoffs in eight Eastern-Central states. It will also end the sporadic violence that has pitted angry strikers against armed truckers trying to bring nonunion coal to utility companies (see box). Even after ratification, however, it could take the mines three weeks more to resume full production...
...after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses to read...
Consumed with their own internal political feuds, the French seemed almost oblivious to some of the dangerous consequences of a leftist victory that would bring not just a change in leadership and policies but a mutation in the nation's economic system (see box). In addition, it might produce a constitutional crisis involving Giscard and a Socialist Premier with conflicting ideological views. There was the possibility too that France might become the first major Western European nation in 30 years to install Communists as heads of government ministries, a prospect that could only embolden the left throughout Europe...
...where would that leave Cheryl Tiegs? Unconcerned. Her too radiant health could be subdued by the greens and purples in Way Bandy's paint box. Bows and ruffles would be easy. The wind machine could be turned off. Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...
Cornell hit pay dirt on a frantic three on two break. Cornell winger Rick Box streaked towards the Harvard goal forcing the Crimson defense deep into their own zone. Box dropped the puck to freshman Roy Kerling who in turn flipped the puck back to Nethery. Nethery took aim and picked the corner...