Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most momentous constitutional issue since President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court," said the Washington Post, and argued that the Bricker Amendment should be defeated to protect the Union from dire peril...
PALL MALL and other king-size cigarettes now selling at the same price as regular-length cigarettes will probably go up 1½ a pack this fall. Chesterfield, Philip Morris and Old Gold, whose kings already cost a penny more, have not found sales hurt...
...kill anyone in the apartment; it would be awfully messy' "), McNeill was carted off to the hospital for scalp repairs. Diana conceded that possibly her husband was in the right (". . . the defiled nest and all that sort of thing, you know") but, even so, ordered him to pack his things and move out. To the reporters she explained that her own black eye had resulted from a domestic tiff four days earlier ("I don't mind being punched. Noel Coward said that women should be struck regularly like a gong and he's right"). In conclusion...
Norman Biltz, born a poor boy in Bridge port, Conn, in 1902, for a while seemed destined to run in the jostling and confident pack of those who always see but never seize the glittering tumbleweed of fortune. But after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer's agent and a bond salesman, he switched to real estate and finally reached Nevada with a grandiose scheme, later carried out at a profit of almost half a million dollars, to peddle practically the whole eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. Nevada, at the moment, was in bad shape...
...decades after Ventures was formed in 1928, Lindsley often traveled the hinterlands of Canada by pack and canoe, scouting mining properties. Ventures acquired the rich Falconbridge Nickel mines at Sudbury, Ont., Giant Yellowknife (gold) mine, United Keno Hill (lead) mines and a dozen other rich Canadian producers. The 20-odd Lindsley-controlled properties listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange are now valued at more than $236 million. Through a maze of 49 holding companies and operating subsidiaries, Ventures' mining interests have spread far beyond Canada and now are on four continents...