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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago the Pi Eta Club was severely chastened by the university and its own Board of Trustees for a club communication that "accidentally" was placed in a non-member's mail box. Its language was extremely degrading to women. The newsletter was offensive to everyone in the Harvard-Radcliffe community but in particular to women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Funny | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

...father thinks that troubles in the batter's box, in addition to the growing prowess at hockey, had a hand in the decision. "His weakness was hitting; he wasn't a power hitter," Matthew Blair says. "He was a crummy hitter...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Taking it For Granted in the Net | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

This project, an adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, has begun to attract attention as a modestly budgeted sleeper that just might translate high-minded feminism into box-office success. Walker confides to his agent his plan to check on the proceedings, and he responds with weary irony: "Terrific, Gordo. You're just what they need down there. You can hassle Lee and piss on the press. Get drunk, start fights. Just like old times, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Accident Waiting to Happen Children of Light by Robert Stone | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Harvard men's hockey Captain Scott Fusco watched his team play Colgate from the press box of Bright Center last night...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Blair, Icemen Brush Past Colgate, 2-0 | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...armed forces' Chief of Staff, it has also become top-heavy with brass and riddled by corruption. Sagging morale has spawned sharp divisions within the ranks. A reformist movement, composed predominantly of young officers concerned about the corps' lack of professionalism, has emerged in the past year (see box). At his press conference, Marcos pointedly maintained that the bulk of the Philippine military supports him. Indeed, many soldiers and officers do not. That fact raised an almost unthinkable scenario: the possibility of a civil war between two camps of a divided nation, each backed by heavily armed military factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Rebelling Against Marcos | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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