Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When two men in Bushwick wearily set down a heavy box of shoes, a band of youths swooped in like vultures and made off with the prize. A teen-age girl on Manhattan's upper West Side complained to friends that some boys had offered to help carry away clothes and radios, then had stolen them from her. Said she, with the skewed logic of the looters: "That's just not right. They shouldn't have done that...
Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly...
...Southeast has been getting the biggest share of corporate money, partly because foreign manufacturers are attracted by the region's relatively low labor costs and non union tradition, and partly because state and local governments there have aggressively pursued them with tax incentives and other attractions (see box...
...been a professional investigator she could have tapped the files of banks, credit bureaus, insurance companies and Government agencies even more extensively-and sometimes illegally -to learn details about the Doderer family's investments, debts, shopping patterns, charities, hobbies, social life medical history, drinking habits and morals (see box...
...varying postures at the plate break with baseball tradition. Batters generally tinker with their stances only when in the dire despond of an extended slump; Carew alters his to fit the pitcher and the pitching tactics. Whatever his stance, it is taken as deep in the batter's box as he can get. If opposing catchers are not wary, he will move so deep that his left foot is completely-and illegally-out of the box. Says Carew: "The further back I am, the longer I can look at the pitch." When he has had his look, his wrists...