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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tribe's phone had told the Boston Globe that he was looking into potential interference on the associate's home phone. On Monday, after Tribe's associate notified the company that his phone was being tampered with, a New England Telephone technician found extra wire loose at the junction box of the group of townhouses that included the associate's and threw it away, the associate told the Globe...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: No Wiretap on Prof's Phone | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

...reporter approaches to where they are sitting in a straight line along the wall talking to each other and listening to some speed metal on a large box. "Tell me a funny story," he asks. "Yeah, I know a funny story, it's about a newspaper reporter..." says one skin rather threateningly...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Philosophy of The Pit: Skins Talk Straightedge | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

Hall also has a tremendous sense of the game. He knows when to cover the box, and when to come out and challenge on cross passes and cornerkicks. Opponents rarely find an open-goal opportunity...

Author: By Jennnifer M. Frey, | Title: A First-Rate Last Choice | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...have to box out for the boards instead of getting pushed under, which happens to us," Delaney Smith said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Perspective | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...availability of alternative accommodation." That was -- and still is -- an impossible task. Severe overcrowding plagues most nonwhite areas, which contain 73% of the country's total population but cover only 13% of its land. In the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, for example, the typical four-room "shoe box" home is occupied by an average of 16 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Graying of a Nation | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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