Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wheeler, 92, isolationist Montana Senator (1923-47); in Washington, D.C. First elected in 1922, Democrat Wheeler gained a national reputation with his aggressive investigation of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, later became an ardent New Dealer. He broke with F.D.R. over the President's plan to enlarge and pack the Supreme Court, earning a reputation as "the man who whipped Roosevelt." As World War II engulfed Europe, Wheeler became an America Firster, charging that aid to besieged Britain would drag the U.S. into a fight that would "plow under every fourth American boy." Defeated for renomination...
...parallel between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and our country in the 1960s." At the first rehearsal, Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration of a Chicago school...
...place for security reasons. He took a private seven-room Alpine chalet on a culdesac. Going to a strange house, deprived of her own things, Betty Ford remarked a bit wistfully that it was the first time in five years that she had had to remember to pack the Band-Aids...
...nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time for consumers and operating costs for store owners...
...people pack the Loeb and also Agassiz...