Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Crimson broke a 2-2 tie late in the third period, Melrose wasn't watching from the penalty box. He was scoring a power-play goal from the middle of the right circle...
Melrose got whistled again? (Begin to cheer.) What did he do? Make a Vermont player eat ice? (Chant his name.) There he goes into the penalty box. (Chants grow louder...
...Fourteen members of Jibril's group, which fiercely opposes P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat's decision to recognize Israel's right to exist and open talks with the U.S., were arrested by West German authorities in October. Seized with them was a cache of arms that included the ultimate boom box: a portable radio packed with a plastic explosive so cleverly concealed that the radio still worked. The wire detonator was fashioned to look under X rays like the radio's antenna. Israelis say the group had planned to blow up an Iberia Airlines flight carrying tourists to Israel...
...court this year. His list of corporate endorsements keeps growing: Chevrolet, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Johnson Products (personal-care items produced by one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S.), Nike. And last fall Jordan became the first basketball player ever to appear on a box of Wheaties...
None of these facts are in dispute or particularly difficult to come by, but the makers of Mississippi Burning, in their pursuit of a box-office smash, chose to ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty...