Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity was the running of the one-two punch, Benjamin and Fitzgerald. Benjamin, who seems to have regained the top form he showed as a sophomore, moved out front in the early stages of the race and ran evenly with Cummins of Cornell at the front of the pack. At the half-way point, Fitzgerald, running splendidly in his varsity debut, caught up with the leaders and then eased out in front with Benjamin...
Tillich's story is called "Memory of the Morning After" and is about Louis Collin who never uses alcohol and carries a fresh pack of cigarettes because it is good psychology "to break the ice" when he meets people. Louis is a boy of modest origin and of modest imagination who in spite of such failings can perceive that the only way to get anywhere in the world is to snag the attention of the boss, to show him what a fellow with a genuine dose of ambition can really...
...following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give the Navy an operational submarine-launched supersonic missile until the IRBM Polaris (fired from a submerged sub) comes along...
Like most buildups, this one was fast, furious and frequently confused. Officers and units were grabbed wherever the Pentagon could find them. Captain Allen C. Lambard, a radio air control officer stationed in Guam, was yanked out of bed and ordered to pack his gear at 2 a.m. Air Force Brigadier General Avelin P. Tacon was flagged down by state police on a California highway. To General Tacon's intense surprise, the cops showed no interest in the fact that he was doing 70 in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. Their mission was to tell him that...
...months Gerard Mignone, 38, an unemployed Brooklyn milkman, had been salivating at the very sight of NBC's gaudy giveaway, The Price Is Right. The show promises a wondrous pack of prizes to any shrewd appraiser in the home audience who submits (via postcard) their correct prices. Mignone sent in hundreds of cards, became obsessed with the show. To check on prices, he organized an intricate filing system, hounded the Department of Commerce and called manufacturers all over the country. Said he: "I got a phone bill I'm afraid to show my wife. I spent $200 tracing...