Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Dixie Dunbar, 36, onetime Broadway dancing star (Yokel Boy) whose legs have more recently been seen dancing beneath the pack of Old Golds on TV commercials; and Robert M. Herndon, motion-picture executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Such a force could pack this kind of a great offensive punch. It could include aircrafts able to deliver large weapons under all weather conditions, against enemy bases 1,500 miles or more distant . . . Operating with such carrier forces will be advanced forces of nuclear-powered submarines launching atomic missiles against targets at relatively short ranges . . . These forces would be fully self-sustaining for some 30 days of war operations...
...battlefields, in the bull rings, in the lunchroom where The Killers wait, with gloves on, for their victims. Yet somehow, in an atomic age, Hemingway seems much less macabre and violent than he did in the pacifist climate of the '30s. Hemingway still stands out from a pack of introspective and obscure writers with a dazzling simplicity, rarely politicking, never preaching, never using Freudian jargon...
What will happen next is almost anyone's guess. The rays pack a lot of energy, and when they hit molecules in the mixture, they will tear them apart by breaking chemical bonds. Since the broken places are highly reactive, they will grab the nearest suitable atom, thus creating molecules of new compounds. They will speed up familiar reactions, start unfamiliar ones, and form compounds that the chemists have never seen before...
...shiny paperback called Six Great Modern Short Novels may be disconcerted to discover that it actually contains six great modern short novels. Ordinarily, he may be no more likely to buy the hard-cover editions of these works than he would be to go shopping for a pack of otter hounds or a brocade waistcoat. But if he reads this volume, undeterred by the crepitation of bursting glue from the spine, he will have exposed himself to more first-class writing than can be found on the entire 1954 fiction list of U.S. and British publishers...