Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season-ticket holders. The $400,000-a-year center "has reaped extraordinary benefits from this system," said team officials in their own public statement. Portland Television Sportscaster Doug Lamear urged the Blazers to exchange one famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good deal. Walton, who missed 47 of the Blazers' 82 games this season because of a foot injury, tore ligaments in his left ankle during a pickup basketball game last week and was reassigned to a cast for the offseason...
Liane Winter, the favorite woman runner, lived up to pre-race expectations as she led the pack of some 50 women participants across the finish line in the strong time...
...hours 50 minutes, now held by Brock Yates and Dan Gurney in a Ferrari Daytona in the first race held November, 1972, to more indefinite periods depending on the astuteness of the many state police across the country who will be alerted when media coverage leaks out that the pack has started. During the 1973 race, the Ohio governor, alerted by ABC television coverage and several national radio hookups, declared that "Anybody cannonballing through this state" would be caught and fried, thus standing up for the rights of all his citizens...
...This pack-journalism nonsense--watching what the other guy does before deciding whether to print news you have--permeated the sub salvage story as well. When Colby visited one news organization, he would always brag about the others that he had "locked up"--in other words, that he had convinced not to publish the story. As a result, newspapers and networks watched each other with special care, anxious for a sign that the story was about to break. There was no concern for getting the news out; the concern was with not getting scooped by the opposition. When Anderson broke...
Fisher makes a hard sell for the "creative satisfying and important" nature of government service. "Most students think of the government as a pack of evil men in the control room with their hands on all the switches," is the way he begins his plea. Well, Fisher explains, when you finally make it into that room, there's nobody there, except a guy sitting in the corner smoking a cigarette and reading a magazine, or maybe a man in a green eye-shade at a desk, but neither of them knows anything anyway. The argument ends. "If you take risks...