Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right side of the plane when a red light flashed the five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
...judge excitedly described the final hell-for-leather chase as "the greatest contest I have ever seen in a National ... At times, the fox was less than six inches from Eddie's nose. The entire pack was driving hard, but Eddie managed to maintain his position until the fox holed." Eddie, whose grandsire, Ringmaster, won three straight Nationals (1938-40), helped prove the old adage that blood will tell by beating the runner-up 375 judging points...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
...play has most force not for what Tom is branded with, but in portraying those who use the branding iron, in picturing a cruelly thoughtless pack in full cry after its quarry. If, despite being well told, the story seems factitious, it is less a matter of plausibility-Tea and Sympathy is far more "plausible" than, say, Othello-than of squeezing in as many sentimental and sensational elements as possible. This applies even to motivations, as with the lurking homosexuality in the blatantly masculine housemaster. At times it becomes as hard to imagine how popular drama ever got along without...
...sale in New York last week went L & M Filters, the first entry of the Big Three into the filter-tip cigarette market. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfield), third largest U.S. cigarette maker,* priced its filters at about 9? more a pack than regular cigarettes...