Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading honor for security. For, in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains...
...without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...
Over the years Rice Cochran became used to having rocks in his pack. He was badgered by nervous mothers, harassed by peremptory fathers ("Pay attention to me, young man. My boy must be senior patrol leader of your troop! That's my last word"). He was the victim of strange rumors ("The scoutmaster handled our financial campaign very well. He got a new Buick out of it"), was accused of being a Communist (he had taught the boys to sing a college song, Sons of the Stanford...
Meanwhile, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. settled down in his old Senate office in shirtsleeves and white galluses and got to work briefing himself on military and diplomatic matters. While he worked, his aides started to pack his belongings (Lodge as a lame-duck Senator will have to move out in January). Lodge operated a good deal by phone, refused to say with whom he was planning to confer. A few Washington officials waited a little nervously for the phone to ring. Said Michael McDermott, State Department press officer: the department would be "completely at [Senator Lodge's] disposal...
...slipped his point across effectively with this same cast, if he had made his lines and situations a bit more subtle. A boarding house with a crew of eccentrics is a fine setting, but using television to represent the machine age and comic books printed matter is overloading the pack. Smashing an electric computer with a sledgehammer is certainly an effective way of stopping it; but it is much less wearing simply to disengage the plug from its socket...