Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gruber now sniffs a new trend. Last week Lorillard began test-marketing a cork-tipped, cigarette-sized cigar in a flip-top box. Price: 35? for a pack...
...their contractors. North American Aviation, Inc., for instance, shows two sealed glass tubes. One of them contains air as well as fine dust, and a small steel ball sinks deeply below the surface. The other has a vacuum. The dust particles, no longer lubricated by air between them, pack tightly and prevent the ball from sinking. On the airless moon, it is likely that dust has compacted in the same...
...finally started home to Nyasaland (a poor back country inhabited by 5,730 whites and 3,000,000 blacks), Dr. Banda held another press conference, which ended, in typical style, with his yelling at reporters: "I don't fawn on you. I think you are all a pack of liars." Then he rode on the roof of a car to the airport, as crowds scrambled to kiss his hand. At home another singing, dancing mob was waiting to greet him. Adopting a Napoleonic stance, Banda declared: "In Nyasaland, we mean to be masters, and if that is treason, make...
...cannot do that in Britain, because 1945 finished that. There are European people in this country who think they must be lords and masters, and there are Indians who think they are better than we are. Well, that type of European and that type of Indian might as well pack up and go home now. We mean to be our own lords in our own house, in our own country and on our own continent of Africa...
When that atomic Moby Dick, the nuclear submarine Nautilus, charged 1,830 miles under the North Pole and its ice pack last summer on its historic ocean-to-ocean passage, it was almost like a brilliantly calculated triumph of matter over matter. Perhaps the most striking drama was not the conflict of man v. the elements, which characterized the 19th century, but the contrast between that traditional conflict and the mid-20th century ease with which the sonar-watching, fathometer-reading, Coke-drinking crew of the Nautilus defied the elements. In Nautilus 90 North (the message Nautilus radioed to indicate...