Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Note. When he is not jumping from desk chair to piano bench composing his operas, Menotti occasionally likes to try some dramatics himself. Sociable, voluble, and almost childishly concerned and curious about other people ("He has the soul of a concierge," says Cowles), he loves to pack his roomy, rambling house in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. with weekend guests. On such occasions, they often play "The Game"-charades. Says Cowles: "Menotti is a very hammy actor, and he always insists on making all the rules...
...went under two minutes in the half for the first time this spring. Usually a front runner, Berman paced himself nicely in sixth position while Crusader distance star Dick Ahern was wearing himself down holding first. In the middle of the second lap, Berman just pulled away from the pack and finished...
Even the normally cordial Key West, Fla. weather seemed to be handing Harry Truman his hat and hinting that it was time to pack up and go. Heavy winds howled in off the gulf one day last week; the swim was canceled, and so was the brisk morning walk. The President bundled up in his sweater and stayed indoors...
...Bahamas, the State Department called in Dr. Carrera and roundly rejected his government's protest. But whatever the diplomatic niceties of the situation, it seemed clear that Patterson and Guatemala were thoroughly fed up with each other; if he ever went back it would probably be to pack his trunks...
...Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting a pack 40 miles in a single day. He had found his legs...