Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other big expenditure will be food. The debate to freeze-dry or not to freeze-dry every food now available shows no signs of resolving itself. But while others are debating, it is best to stick with the supermarkets. It is luxury for less, and a light pack is small recompense for a weekend of weird tasting meals. The winter is the one time when all those frozen fruits and vegetables pay off, as well as the canned meat products...
This isn't to say that you should lug one of those ten pound smoked hams in your pack--although its been done--but the calories lost by not being able to get through the inedible, can't be regained no matter how many chocolate bars you're carrying. And your best protection against the cold is the amount of food you can shove down...
...count, however, is not enthusiastic about the trip. "I suppose this means we'll have to pack," he sulks, and he worries about the appropriateness of his wardrobe, which runs mostly to black evening dress. "Maybe they're a little out of fashion." Anton reassures him about his clothes, "but they suit you." He bundles the count into the back of a touring car, lashes his wheelchair and coffin to the roof, and drives...
crowds; Stevie Wonder failed to pack houses on his most recent tour, and John Denver filled only about half the 14,000 seats at the University of Tennessee's auditorium...
...CAMPGROUND is extremely quiet Sunday morning. At 10:00 we pack to leave and park our car down the exit road. On our way out I hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next...