Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were far from ideal for a fast race. The new quarter-mile track had been churned up by some 3,000 pounding runners, a gusty wind was blowing, and any time under 4:10 seemed highly unlikely. For the first half mile Bannister was content to stay with the pack (paced at a stodgy 2:06.2 by Stewart Ray). But before the four runners hit the three-quarter mark, Bannister, clearly impatient with the pace, lengthened his rangy stride and spurted to the lead...
History 1, the old grand survey pre-requisite for concentrators, was eliminated last year. The replacement, Social Sciences 1 does not pack in the solid factual background of its predecessors; moreover, it cannot be counted for concentration...
...each city block that the general traversed, there were 12,500 people on each side of the parade. Assuming that people could pack the side-walk 20 deep, this would take care of only 20 percent of the total. Even if an equal number could crowd into the side streets along the way, that leaves 7,500 per block watching from windows, treetops, and other elevated positions...
...Portland, Ore., William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice and sentimental mountaineer, announced his summer plans: a 400-mile hike along the Tibetan border in the Himalayas. "It will be a pack trip," said Douglas, "but I'll probably be walking most of the way. Those porters up there have sort of a union. They'll go only ten miles a day and carry 65 pounds. For this they get 75? a day apiece and they furnish their own food...
...shop and later a candy store. When a wartime edict ordered all stores but drugstores to close after 6 p.m. each day, Ike and Mike quickly added drugs to their line-and found to their surprise that they would sell. When the cigarette tax was boosted a penny a pack, they put out a sign: "Katz pays...