Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of General Electric. Liz had left New York in dry weather for a tour of Schenectady plants, where she found ankle-deep slush. While sloshing around in open-toed shoes, she noticed Mr. Wilson whispering to his chauffeur, who returned a short time later with a shoe box which Wilson gravely presented to Liz. It contained a pair of rubbers. After that, whenever she phoned him, Mr. Wilson's sign-off to TIME Researcher Fremd was "Keep your feet...
...parliamentary private secretary, sent him to India to discuss the bill which was to give India a federal constitution and eventual dominion status. Soon, with the sponsorship of Stanley Baldwin, Butler was promoted to Under Secretary. When Hoare fell ill during debate, Rab took his place at the dispatch box. He knew India, and he knew his bill. Attacked from the left for going too slowly, abused from the right by Winston Churchill and the diehard imperialists for going too far, Rab skillfully stood his ground, pushed the bill through. He was then...
...beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...said the body must be put back in cold storage. A physician jumped in, asserting that the correct procedure was to put the body in the sun so that it could dry up. Dr. Fuenzalida replied curtly: "I know how to do it," and popped the cadaver into a box lined with black paper...
...week. But even though fearless angels are easy to find (178 contributed $300,000 to the forthcoming Shirley Booth musical, By the Beautiful Sea), the risks are still great. This week there are fresh signs of a challenging movement that may yet check Broadway's stranglehold on its box office...