Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimated 211-million-box crop) were lost, forecasting a likely price rise. Temperatures as low as 30° at Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan's 78° seem too cool. Wise vacationers fleeing the cold headed west rather than south: Phoenix and Tucson offered their usual winter warmth, San Diego baked and beached...
...among them. But today, as critic Jim Miller points out, "Rock is first and foremost a member in good standing of the American entertainment industry, welcome in Las Vegas and Holl wood, on the screen and over the air, in homes and theaters...rock gossip sells newspapers; rock concerts pack stadiums; rock records dominate the radio." Not surprisingly, Rolling Stone Press is chasing in on this trend, coming out with a new, oversized (though not outrageously overpriced) rock 'n' roll coffee-table volume--The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, which commemorates rock...
Laura Esserman (you'll be hearing that name a lot) began her quest for the weirdest entry in the "And when I Die..." section, filling out the "Leader of the Pack" question with "I'll never forget you, THE INDIGESTION STAYS ON MY MIND...
...both straight-forward and way the hell off the track. But as I sit here now, NOBODY, but nobody could compare with the answers that were turned in by Esserman, so I might as well just give you her choicest brainstorms before the fellas in the white nehru jackets pack her away for posterity...
...Norfolk-based former Viet Nam prisoner of war, who vows that he is ready to resign from the Navy in protest. "The price of honor seems pretty cheap this year." Air Force Colonel George Day, another former Viet Nam P.O. W. now stationed in Florida, is ready to pack up his war medals, including the Medal of Honor, and ship them all back to Washington...