Word: boxful
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After decades of false starts, Venice has finally launched its "Moses project," the building of a giant seawall designed to part the waters and save the city from the sea. Last week, exactly 22 years after the great flood, a 200-ton steel box was towed across the Venice Lagoon and dropped in place at the Porto di Lido, one of the lagoon's three entrances. If the device works as planned, it will be the first of 60 to 70 sea gates that will eventually stretch 1.2 miles, sealing off the lagoon from the Adriatic...
Finally, the referee scooped it up and deposited it in the penatly box...
...accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit," said Harry Truman. While Americans for the moment seem to have abandoned this axiom, Mikhail Gorbachev has picked it up. In a private White House ceremony not long ago, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze handed President Reagan a Russian box. Inside was a glittering gold medal, the first struck in the Soviet Union commemorating the new arms agreement. "The General Secretary wanted you to have it since you are the architect of the INF treaty," said Shevardnadze. Reagan's surprise was as great as his gratification...
Brain Melendez '86, president of the council and a second-year law student, said that although students on both sides of the amendment accuse the others of stuffing the ballot box, he did not believe there was foul play involved...
...Apparently, the ballot box was left unattended for a period of time. People probably just dropped their ballots in, not realizing that they were supposed to have their names checked off," Melendez said. He said that he would supervise the voting next week on Monday or Tuesday...