Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Biblical Playing Cards-"bring romance and color of the Bible to the card pack. Old Testament personalities substitute for Kings. Queens. Jacks." Price...
...solid. So treated, castor oil becomes tasteless-because it is covered with gelatin. More than 1,000 companies are investigating the process to see if it can be used for their own products, and the Pentagon has contracted with National to "encapsulate" liquid rocket fuel so that it will pack the power of liquid propellant, yet have the handy convenience of a solid...
...misfortunes of mankind." But Zhivago soon sickens of "the savagery of daily, hourly, legalized, rewarded slaughter." Moscow is like a looted city, its empty windowpanes stare blindly at Zhivago; it is another one of the living whom the Revolution has buried. Typhus and near-starvation force the doctor to pack himself and family off to the Urals-but the old life is still so near that they go into exile with a nursemaid for the children. This train journey is one of the book's great set pieces, with matchless descriptions of sky, snow and forest, and a haunting...
...opposition quickly regained the lead, this time on a shot by Mel Tomalty at 9:11. But just one minute later, sophomore Dave Crosby dug the puck out of a scramble in front of the cage and powered in past Armstrong. When Van Lammers broke loose from the pack at 11:56 and beat Pratt, the Crimson appeared to be Clarkson's 38th victim in 39 games at home...
Night after that, treating the Queen to Thanksgiving turkey at the U.S. embassy residence, Nixon even got an unexpected human plus. Somebody in Washington forgot to pack his tuxedo; Nixon had to borrow one from a newsman, got nice press notices about "the man who came to dinner without his dinner jacket...