Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title safe for another season, Eugenio was still not satisfied. Last week more snow was shoveled onto the bob run before the four-man sleds started their breakneck slides, and Eugenic drew No. i starting position. This meant that there would be no front runners to pack the course. So Eugenio. a hotelkeeper's son from Dobbiaco in the Dolomites, decided on direct action. The night before the four-man competition started, he collected four shovels, rounded up his teammates and drove...
Public housing has always meant huge projects that pack in the most people possible per foot. But many experts now feel that such projects do nothing to stop spot decay in good neighborhoods. They suggest that a better way would be to scatter small units in strategic sites. Because Southern federal housing officials have been notably critical of the "blockbusting" theories of the housing authority, it finally set up the first experiment in Cedartown, 70 miles northwest of Atlanta...
...jockey gets only $20 for merely riding a race (this is pushed up to $50 for winning, $35 for second place and $25 for third), he also usually gets 10% of any purse his mount wins. After several 10% cuts, Hartack called his father and said: "Well, Dad, pack up your shirt. I'm taking you out of the mines. I just bought a farm near Charles Town and you're gonna...
...gate, Willie drives into his familiar dash for position and then takes the shortest road home. Says Jimmy Kilroe with professional admiration: "You almost never find Willie in what they call 'the married man's position,' that is, playing it safe on the outside of the pack so he can get home healthy for dinner. As a matter of fact, I think that not enough has been made of the frame of mind of the bachelor athlete. The bachelor is without the normal, settling tendencies. The other boys, the married ones, the homebodies, so to speak, have an awareness...
...Running as usual only to win, Ireland's Ron Delany at the Boston Garden won his 18th consecutive indoor mile. Delany, who has the stuff to outsprint just about every mile record on the books, was perfectly satisfied to finish in 4:05.3, far in front of the pack...