Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exhibitions at the fair ranged from the Mail Communications Center's, which gave away souvenir bottle openers and pamphlets with information about their services, to an enormous multicolored box whose flashing lights called attention to the Harvard University Metropolitan Area Network, a newly developed fiber optics communications system that New England Telephone is testing at several Harvard offices...
Brown was solid, but Harvard was spectacular,looking more like an NCAA Final Four contingentthan any other time this season. Play revolvedaround the Crimson's run-and-gun style, with theBruins forced to adapt to Harvard's tendency toplay lots of balls into the box...
...heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates busy for a lifetime. A natural life-span, of course...
...years. Ford Frick was the commissioner in 1953, when Gussie Busch bought the team and wanted to rename old Sportsman's Park Budweiser Stadium. Frick ruled out such crass huckstering, but at 88 Busch has got the last laugh aboard a beer wagon that fetches him to his box before the home games...
...balked. We did not have a big lead and could not afford another delay of game penalty. We risked losing a man to the penalty box and losing momentum to the opposing team...