Word: pack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onto the polished, horseshoe-shaped table of the U.N. Security Council plopped a miniature arsenal-an automatic rifle and a light mortar, a helmet, a back pack, an opened parachute, a camouflage suit. Thus last week did British-backed Malaysia, after more than a year of harassment by Indonesia, launch a dramatic appeal...
When the favorite, Roman Brother, sprinted in ahead of the pack by a half-length, whoops of joy resounded from Flushing, Mich., to Hyattsville, Md.* Two winners were actually on hand to witness their triumph. Mrs. Frank Malkus, wife of a Carteret, N.J., barber, burst into tears, displayed her rosary, sobbing, "I held this the whole time." Paul Cordone, a beverage distributor from Gloversville, N.Y., stood up under his $100,000 winnings more philosophically. "I'm even with horses for life," he exclaimed...
...carefully drawn stage directions. At 48 minutes sharp, for instance, the percussionist is instructed to "feed all animals, fish in bowls, birds and/or fowl in cages or wooden crates. A stuffed bird in cage is also fed." The director is told "to enter with an ape or with a pack of dogs on leash." At 68 minutes, the painter is instructed to "begin throwing nails on magnetic surface...
Penguin Puns. A self-taught, left-handed cartoonist, Pat Oliphant since 1955 had amused the 200,000 subscribers of the Advertiser, where he had moved up from copy boy. But he had long pined to pack up his pen and take it to the U.S. Both he and his trim, Dutch-born wife Hendrika (winner of the South Australian breaststroke championship in 1955) have boned up on American mores and politics against the day that one of Oliphant's endless job applications to U.S. papers paid...
...light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack of cigarettes...