Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time winds down. Thirty-seven seconds left. Mullowney is straining against the door to the penalty box. Bourbeau passes to Donato at point. Slapshot. Red light. The Crimson team mobs Donato at center...
...women, Doreen Kimura, a University of Western Ontario psychology professor, found that when levels of estrogen were high, the women showed greater verbal fluency and used their hands more skillfully than when levels were low. In one test of verbal dexterity, the women were asked to say "A box of mixed biscuits in a biscuit mixer" as fast as possible five times. Their average time was 14 sec. on high-estrogen days, vs. 17 sec. when hormone levels were low. On the other hand, the women's spatial abilities -- picking a shape out of a complex pattern, for example -- were...
...Simon work is eagerly anticipated: Rumors has a box-office advance of more than $2 million. Although preview audiences cheered, in truth the play falls far short of its promise. The plot, which could only have been concocted by a media-shy celebrity, unfolds at a party where the host, a deputy mayor of New York City, lies bleeding from a bullet wound in the earlobe. He is too dazed to talk. His wife and servants are missing. Rather than call for help, the assembled friends launch a cover-up, avoiding scandal ostensibly for their host but also for themselves...
...right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River raw. Now, as the last charcoal cleansing filters are installed inside this state-of-the-art box, an apparition has appeared on the outside, in full view of thousands of neighbors, riverside commuters and pleasure-boat tourists...
...state thinks it's building a park up there? They're crazy. Go have a look." A left turn leads to the dock, where garbage barges are piled high each day and sent off to the trash heap of history. Take a right and slip into the big box itself...