Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer in town (100 cases), buzzed over to neighboring Altaville for more, and for wine. They guzzled fast, tossed empty cans and bottles into gutters. Residents soon found drunks stretched in their doorways. A group trailed a town girl; while one yelled obscenities, the rest of the pack twirled waist chains menacingly to discourage interference. Three of Angels Camp's four bars shut down; merchants decided to close early. Then came action. Flashing down the Main Street hill with muffler throbbing, a long-haired youngster wheeled artfully through a knot of idlers, snatched a can of beer...
...those smoking less than half a pack...
...half a pack to a pack...
June passed, July passed, August passed, and finally enough of September passed so that it was time to leave the beaches and the clubs, pack up the $350 raccoon coats (bought from Gunther's on Fifth Avenue, of course) and trudge back to Cambridge. The Class moved into Claverly, Westmorly, Russell, Drayton, and a hundred little boarding houses around the Square and settled down to a year of concentration and speculation on what the man with the white mustache would do next. There were some new sights to see around the Square: the Langdell addition had been finished...
More than three-quarters of the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race was behind him at 2:01 p.m., C.D.T. on Memorial Day, and handsome Sam Hanks was right where he wanted to be: in front of the pack. Now, for the first time, he began to worry. A veteran of eleven unsuccessful attempts at the "big spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would...