Word: pack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shuffled back into the pack as a front-running filly grabbed the lead, Russell was forced to take A.C.'s Viking wide, still lagged in fourth place as the field pounded the last turn into the home stretch. For the first time since he has been driving A.C.'s Viking, Russell reluctantly went to his whip, and the tired horse responded instantly with a burst of speed that was just enough to carry him across the line a neck in front of a rank outsider named Isaac...
...federal expenses 15% across the board. That was the way to do things, and I was all for Roosevelt on things like that. But then this fellow Keynes got hold of him." Soon Byrd was leading the Senate opposition to the AAA, TVA, NRA-and when Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, Byrd knew that his dissent was total...
...nosedived into the water. An afternoon's outing to swim at a public beach drew an escort of a navy cutter and two police launches, which tried futilely to keep the omnipresent photographers at a distance. "We have never failed." trumpeted the leader of the long-lensed paparazzi pack; and Jackie graciously consented to pose, hoping they would take it a little easier in the future. As the picture-snappers closed in, Caroline snapped right back with a toy camera -from the shutter popped a juicy red tongue emitting an unmistakable Bronx cheer...
...lead−Cleveland, Minnesota, New York, even the improbable Los Angeles Angels (TIME, July 13). At one point last month, only 3½ games separated the first seven teams. But by last week, the league had settled down to a scramble for second place. On top of the pack once again were the perennial champion New York Yankees. They were just a little overdue...
There are still too many unknowns for NASA scientists to make an irreversible decision. But Holmes smiles with a hint of apology, "We have to choose some plan, or we'd better pack up and go home." Then he turns intensely serious. "We can't change too often though. It costs too much money." He picks from his desk a child's china bank in the shape of a rocket. When he puts a nickel in the slot, the coin falls right out through the open bottom. "A friend gave me this," he says, "to keep...