Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better than 100 m.p.h., screeched off a hairpin curve, rolled over three times into a rocky ditch. The drivers, unhurt, crawled back, started the engine, and somehow finished the day's lap-in 69th place. In his 1950 Cadillac, ex-Pilot William Sterling of El Paso paced the pack over the first 228 miles at an average 107 m.p.h...
...crowd-puller, Hopalong would have to concede nothing to the President of the U.S. Last January a crowd of New Yorkers estimated by the police at 350,000 queued up for 25 blocks to shake his hand. This month he drew the largest circus attendance (18,700) ever to pack the Chicago Stadium. For the past year, devoted millions of children and grownups have sat entranced before televised Hopalong Cassidy films...
...reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt Lenox to get . . . coarse woolen to wrap her in, and then to pack her securely in a wooden...
...McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
Tiger professors will be encouraged to feed at the Commons trough with the freshman and sophomore pack from now on. Undergraduates at Princeton will be able to invite their instructors to dine free of charge...