Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the clouds lifted. The slopes of the Col glared white and dusty under the sun. Pedaling furiously as the road twisted above the timber line, Bobet broke away from the pack. Rump high and nose to the handlebars, he zipped down dangerous Alpine switchbacks at better than 40 m.p.h. and sprinted into Briangon ahead of a demoralized Rubier. Briangon and all of France breathed again. With only five laps and five days of racing left, Bobet seemed to be a winner...
...streamed out of Sydney toward Brisbane early this month, small boys stoned them from the roadside. Drivers got lost when wise guys switched highway markers around. A New Zealand entrant burned his hands beating out an engine fire, and 20 cars bogged down in mud. By the time the pack passed the first check point, drivers and officials were already wrangling over penalties...
...center's gospel, laid down by Founder De Lee, is absolute cleanliness in the midst of squalor. As a sanitary aid, the delivery crews pack two odd accessories: newspapers and empty beer bottles. With the bottles as stiffeners, newspapers are rolled into bolsters to shield the mother from outside germs. Explains the center's Co-Director Dr. Harry B. Benaron: "We don't say that newspapers are germfree, but they are certainly cleaner than the sheets we find in the average home...
...lone Spitfire sped down into a pack of Messerschmitts and knocked down two of them. Then something hit the Spitfire...
...21st annual All-Star baseball game, American League sluggers overpowered the National League's best, 11-9. Paced by Indian Al Rosen's two homers (which drove in five runs) the American League finally won for Manager Casey Stengel (on the fifth try), helped set a pack of All-Star records in the process. Among them: a total of 31 hits, 20 runs, 13 pitchers used, gate receipts...