Word: shoebox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night I joined Shmuel Schiff as he made his watchman's rounds. We stumbled through the dark across whirls of rusty barbed wire, past shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked...
...will require a fairly heavy financial outlay from any of the 8,000,000 U.S. set owners who want the images to appear on their screens. To receive color telecasts even in black & white, set owners must spend $30-$50 for an adapter. When plugged into the set, the shoebox-shaped adapter (about the size of a midget radio) reduces the number of "scanned" lines on each screen from the 525 used for ordinary telecasts to the 405 lines required by the CBS system. To get telecasts in color, set owners must spend another $75-$100 for a converter...
...midtown Manhattan's East River shore was almost completed last week and w.ork was beginning on the 59-nation General Assembly hall that will snuggle at its base. Conservative critics had been hard on the tall Secretariat, had compared its marble and glass severity to that of a shoebox or a sandwich set on edge (TIME, June 13). They were going to be equally rocked by the swaybacked Assembly hall...
Then there is the case of "Baby L," foundling found on a hospital doorstep in a shoebox. Baby L rapidly improved, he took nourishment and gained weight. Then, to excerpt from his-case history...
...such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...