Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's fleets can steam ostentatiously to show the flag. As an instrument of keeping the peace in the cold war, bombers still have advantages-unlike launched missiles, they can be recalled, can be ordered to shift targets in flight. And currently, the Air Force's bombers pack a bigger explosive wallop than programed intercontinental missiles...
...Force said it had recently scored four bull's-eyes on ground targets with its air-to-surface Rascal, a missile designed to extend the reach of the bomber force now in being. Rascal can be launched from an airplane 100 miles from target, can pack an atomic or thermonuclear warhead...
...first time in 21 years, Ford in 1957 headed the pack with a 45,000-car sales lead over Chevrolet at the eight-month mark. Ford earnings showed it: $229.5 million for 1957's first nine months v. $145.2 million last year. And Ford is determined to do even better...
...seems to have become a wearisome compulsion to be borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people who are in love with someone else...
...Murrow's look, the look of an intelligent man of good will who has encountered too little cause for joy and too much for gloom-if this look can be described as "hangdog," what a ragtag pack of mongrels inhabits our world today...