Word: drawerfuls
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...don’t know how many specimens are in that drawer, but lots,” Boss says. “No one would be foolish enough to try to count the total number of specimens here. It’s easy to get into the millions.” As he speaks, he touches a padded case holding a few tiny Atlantic abalone shells. “These are rare, very hard to get,” Boss says...
...only one question remains: in the drawer, which book goes...
...officers burst through Duan's door and found him standing in the room in his underclothes. Duan attacked them, says Zhang, and "it took all three of us to hold him down." They asked Duan if he knew why they had come. "I robbed people," he replied. In a drawer they discovered bloodstained shorts and a pair of shoes that matched a print taken from the last murder. Police say he confessed to the killings a few hours later. They charged him with the "Red Dress Murders...
...choice. When President Kim Jong Il declared that North Korea would become the first nation ever to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and might test some new missiles as well, the pretense that this confrontation doesn't count as a crisis finally got stuffed in a drawer. IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei met with top U.S. officials and discussed whether to reconvene the IAEA Board of Governors and toss the mess over to the Security Council. Pyongyang then said it would take the matter directly to the council--though the move may simply complicate the situation...
...this film, Chicago has actually been in the works for decades. Soon after the original production opened on Broadway in 1975, director Bob Fosse began planning a movie version. When Fosse died in 1987, says producer Marty Richards, "I took the script, threw it in a drawer and said, 'That's the end of that.'" Then eight years ago, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein wondered what had happened. "He had seen it as a young person and was passionate about it," says Richards. When a revival of Chicago opened on Broadway in 1996 and became a huge hit, that passion...