Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perpetuating Harmony House." No lover of regular office hours, he works either at home or, in good weather, in a tent set up in the park outside. Once a heavy smoker (50 or more British 555s a day), he now, on doctor's orders, confines himself to a pack a day, keeps fit by swimming in a luxurious pool in the Imperial City. For relaxation he writes classical Chinese poetry-a pastime his regime is otherwise discouraging by switching Chinese from their traditional ideographs to a Romanized alphabet...
...much to ship many adult baboons (up to 60 Ibs. each) to the U.S., but luck was with Dr. Werthessen. He learned by chance that a Texas zoo had a surplus stock of dog-faced baboons-they had been bred in the zoo for 20 years, and the pack had had only two "old men" to sire all the offspring. This line breeding gave them a start toward genetic purity-a most desirable quality in research animals...
...Southwest Foundation's baboonery, on the rolling, Kenya-like plains eight miles west of downtown San Antonio, resounded to the barks and squeals of the baboon colonies. They were housed in the end sections of a Quonset-shaped structure of diamond wire. In one end was the pack of 30 Texas-bred baboons, with its single overlord adult male, his harem of a dozen females of reproductive age, a few adolescents and two tiny, three-month babies. At the other end was the pack of 70 young, imported baboons trapped in Africa...
...even days, when the Reds do not shell the island (to prove that they can control its destiny at will even if they cannot seize it), supplies pour into the beaches from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to distrust the promises of Peking, they pack two days' work into the five morning hours, furiously irri gating, hoeing the weeds, planting winter crops. Some, like wizened Tun Men-tse, venture out before dawn even on the odd days, crouching in the dark to get in a couple of hours' labor. It is a gamble...
Ward boss or Governor, Curley was not a man to fiddle with reforms or constitutions, the ways of doing things. His brief attempt to pack the Massachusetts courts by removing all judges over seventy did not get past the over-seventy members of his Council. More often he took what was given, Ward 17 or Boston society, and moved around in it a little faster than anyone else. Limiting himself to what he could get out of a thing, he made few forays into the more creative spheres of machine building or organized social planning. Like his social security...