Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years time," King Farouk once remarked, "there will be only five kings in the world-the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards...
...Scout. Estes Kefauver, who now leads the pack with 252½ delegates, let it be known that he was made to order for the battle against Eisenhower. Said Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan: "You watch what the big Democratic bosses do now-guys we haven't been able to crack. They'll say: 'How can we duck that sonofabitch Kefauver?' They think he's a Boy Scout, but they know he's got vote appeal . . . We will point out that the Republicans slapped down their machine bosses, and the Democrats have...
...cheering audience of some 2,000, the Americans are led by "a little group of madmen dreaming of a new war ... If this handful of criminals decides to impose the American way of life [on the world] by force of arms, that way of life will collapse like a pack of cards...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...
...brand, identical except for size, in name, tobacco and package. What made the trade nervous was the fact that the big Chestie, without making any visible dent in the sales of its shorter brother, quickly ran up king-size sales in the test markets. Despite the 1?-a-pack higher price, dealers could scarcely keep up with demand...