Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CARD WAS SIGNED WITH A question mark, but Virginia Brieant found nothing suspicious about the Valentines' Day gift of Golden Godiva candy that had been sent to her Westchester County home. She unwrapped the box and ate four of the chocolates. Then she collapsed...
Last year, Leslie recieved a box of Golden Godiva chocolates. The sender was not identified and, because of an address mix-up, the chocolates were spoiled by the time the professor and his wife received them. This year, the Leslies were again sent a mysterious Valentines gift of candy, and the FBI analysis concluded that these chocolates contained the same poison as those sent to the judge. Reportedly, people at Duke and Yale received similar packages...
...making Charles, normally a beau ideal, just as petty as his wives, Murray helps diffuse the unattractive misogyny shot through virtually all of Coward's works. Still, this intelligent approach baffles some theatergoers and irritates others. It muffles many of the play's laughs and, more troublesome at the box office, keeps Chamberlain from maximizing his easy charm. Yet audiences who come to see him may depart delighted at having seen Page in full cry, sloshing her drinks onto people, cramming her mouth with sandwiches, then abruptly divining where her seance went wrong with a fierce delight that would surely...
McDonald's has cooked up some popular new products too. Its McD.L.T. sandwich, a lettuce-and-tomato burger packed in a two-compartment box to keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool, has proved to be a beefy competitor to Burger King's Whopper and Wendy's Big Classic. The McD.L.T., introduced nationally early last year, is the company's biggest success since Chicken McNuggets debuted in 1983. At the moment, McDonald's is test-marketing a more unexpected offering: McPizza...
...user who sits down at a PS/2 will be struck by the improved keyboard, the smaller system box and the disk drives (3 1/2-in. microfloppies rather than the original 5 1/4-in. disks). Although the new models can handle most of the old PC programs, software written for the PS/2s will not run on the PCs, which could doom the older machines to obsolescence...