Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the microscopic crew reaches its disembarkation point: the human brain. THE WRONG BOX. Somewhere hidden among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin-unoccupied-although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill...
Sandy Koufax got the Dodgers back on the track by beating the Cards 2-1 for his 26th victory of the year. But meanwhile the Pirates were doing their best to prove that reports of their death were exaggerated. "Take the nails out of the coffin!" Manager Harry Walker shouted after Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phils and cut the Dodgers' lead to 1½ games...
...chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
...year's New York Festival, thought it was "a great festival. The most exciting thing was the number of young people who came, despite the high ticket prices. If kids will go out and pay that much money to see foreign films, it drives another nail into the coffin of the Hollywood syndrome of catering to the twelve-year-old mind that even twelve-year-olds never...
...Force rates Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: "the flying coffin...