Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe dormitory, graduate or undergraduate, has a resident doctor. It is our firm belief that a doctor should be on call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present...
...pieces of steel across the wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...
...Pack of Lies. The politicians who answered the royal summons last week head parties so torn by splinter factions that none is strong enough to lead. Except for the King, the best known man in Nepal is wily, mustachioed K. I. Singh, who for 110 tempestuous days last year ruled as Prime Minister, and is strongly suspected of being under the thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office...
...final race, a half-hour later, Landau far outdistanced the pack to win the low hurdles in 23.7 seconds, with Dave Rosenthal third for the varsity...
...might have been expected to be afflicted by disease in the same proportion. Not so, Drs. Wynder and Lemon found. Items: ¶Against an expected ten cases of lung cancer among Adventists, there was only one, a man who died of lung cancer in 1955. He had smoked a pack a day for 25 to 30 years before joining the church in 1941, then had sworn off. (As a former metal worker, he may have been exposed to cancer-causing substances.) ¶ Heart attacks were only 60% as common among Adventist men as among other men (though equally common...