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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't hard to get used to the free roast beef sandwiches and potato chips and soda at football games, either, although I'm not a big football fan and only watched from the press box two or three times...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Women Athletes Deserve More Moments in the Sun | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

...electric scoreboard--and six fans sitting on blankets in foul territory at the softball field listening to the national anthem float over from the neighboring field. And even if attendance showed up as color commentary in an article, or in the tiny print at the bottom of a scoring box, we never cast judgment...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Women Athletes Deserve More Moments in the Sun | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

...senior woman who tried the houses' offerings criticized the packaging method. "The box is too bulky," she said. "It's hard to be subtle with one of those in your pocket...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Condom Machines Installed in Houses | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...income -- as director of the musicals Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Hands committed himself to staging a most unorthodox venture for the R.S.C.: a $7 million musical adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 horror novel Carrie. In meetings, colleagues say, Hands was apt to recite costs and potential box-office income at various Broadway houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Getting All Fired Up over Nothing CARRIE | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...recovering in a hospital. Kauffmann later learned from a radio newscast that Hallat, doomed by his captors' rabid anti-Semitism, had been executed. Kauffmann, Carton and Fontaine were continually moved from apartment to apartment. At one point Kauffmann was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, sealed in a metal box and bolted under the chassis of a truck. When he banged on the side, he was told he would be shot. "Kill me," he snapped back. "It doesn't make any difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Years in the Belly of Beirut | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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