Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Businessmen in the area had mixed feelings about the proposed complex. Shirley Orkin, manager of the Jewel Box, hoped the new stores would bring new business to the area but added, "If it resembles a mall too much it will disrupt the character of Harvard Square...
...your memory!! (Reading time: 6 minutes, 38 seconds) Answer-sequences that mirror the rhyme scheme of Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered for a a special prize. Fill in the answer sheet below, do not leave any stray marks, and return immediately to the Educational Testing Service, Box 000, Princeton, New Jersey, with a $30 non-refundable fee and three proof-of-purchase receipts from Coop sidewalk sales...
...vowed: "As long as there is an Israeli soldier on my land, I am not ready to contact anyone in Israel at all." Thus his announcement caught even his wife Jihan by surprise (see box). In fact, Sadat had secretly been mulling over the idea for some months. On Nov. 14 Sadat told CBS-TV's Walter Cronkite that he was ready to go to Jerusalem if asked. Menachem Begin responded with Israel's formal invitation. One of the diplomatic sensations of the century was accomplished...
...each school district would have the same percentage of minority teachers as the system as a whole. The school board was compelled to separate 3,500 teachers into two lines, one for whites, the other for blacks and Hispanics. Then they drew their new assignments by lot from a box. On the U.S. Senate floor, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan assailed this racial nitpicking. "In the name of civil rights," he complained, "the Office for Civil Rights is mandating practices which would have appalled us a decade ago, practices which mindlessly violate the most fundamental principles of this nation...
...Shadow Box. A group of terminal patients face death with pervasive fear and arresting dignity in this luminous play by Michael Cristofer. Launched at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and restaged at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, this play went on to Broadway to win the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, heartening proof of the growing strength and creativity of the U.S. regional theater...