Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find any momento of Kathy Vigna's considerable achievements you have to locate the box in her garage. Open it and--finally--you'll get a glimpse of all that Vigna has done on the tennis court in her four years at Harvard and, earlier, in high school and junior high...
Should Kathy Vigna find success later in life, you might have difficulty finding the momentos given as rewards. But you can never put success in a box...
...stake. But the more he and President Reagan pondered Gorbachev's offer, the more tempting it seemed. Meeting with the press back in the U.S. on Thursday night, after briefing the vacationing Reagan at the President's California ranch, Shultz asserted, "If we are placed in a box, it's a wonderful box to be in . . . We have been working from day one to bring about radical reductions in these weapons systems." Earlier, Reagan summarized Shultz's report this way: "All I heard today is in the direction I want...
Indeed, the more difficult negotiations may occur not between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. but between the U.S. and Western Europe -- or perhaps among the Europeans themselves. Those who fear an American "decoupling" from the defense of Europe are in a box, and unlike Shultz they do not find it wonderful. The idea of a denuclearized continent is far from unpopular with a European public nervous about becoming the first targets in a nuclear war. With rare exceptions such as Thatcher, no leader dares argue openly that getting rid of U.S. nuclear missiles is a bad idea. Still less will anyone...
...aspect of the poisoning affair that amazes people is that one of Buettner-Janusch's fingerprints was on the box of candy sent to the judge. Whatever else Buettner-Janusch may or may not have been capable of, leaving an incriminating print seems an act of carelessness out of keeping with his meticulous personality. Some friends have suggested that the former professor, disillusioned by his attempts to reintegrate himself into academia, became so despondent that he wanted to return to jail...