Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seconds after buying the spring's first box of baseball cards, I would spread the contents of each pack on a patch of thick grass at my elementary school as a kid. The number of cards being sold in 1988 would cover a whole natural grass infield...
...game or the tradition of baseball cards. Cards are such a part of the national pastime because they unify the romance and the science of baseball. A card's front should make the player a hero, and the back should provide all his statistics for those who read box scores every day. Donruss has fallen short on both sides this year...
Harvard spread its offense, setting up attackman David Kramer at the top right corner of the box. The laxmen passed the ball around for only a few seconds before Kramer whipped off an underhanded shot. Kramer's bullet beat Vermont goalie Brian Eng to the upper corner...
Democracy's verdict can be harsh, even for its friends. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte's ruling Christian Democratic Party, which has steered an erratic course between murderous foes on the left and the right, rediscovered that truth last week when it was roundly rejected at the ballot box. Almost 1 million Salvadoran voters braved guerrilla intimidation to oust the Christian Democrats from power and give control of the 60-seat Assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which in the past has been associated with right-wing death squads...
...less revolutionaries than revisionist classicists, but their new collections showed them to be as restless and clever as ever. Kawakubo sent out dozens of outfits with unexpected lapels and seams like overgrown ski trails, most in combinations of black, red and orange, so the show seemed like a massive box of spilled Halloween candy. Yamamoto, the Zen master of the subtle change, struck up a parade of flowing black coats with closings as challenging as Rubik's Cube...