Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John G. Daugman '76 said he prefers battles of brains to those of brawn. Since his discovery of chess, he said, "I find it difficult to feel entertained by watching a pack of Goliaths, that is to say, Philistines, knocking each other down on a football field...
...special gasoline tax should be imposed on every gallon sold. This "conservation fee" would lead to car pooling and increased use of rails and other mass transit. The tax would cut down on the Sunday joyride, the midnight trip to the corner drugstore to get a pack of cigarettes, the national restlessness that led one observer to update Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum for America: "I move, therefore I'm alive." And the tax would be effective. The Federal Energy Administration reckons that every penny of such a surcharge would reduce gasoline consumption...
...rubbery fabric called stretch laurex, Hartman simply inserts the bottom of his electric guitar into a pelvic pocket, much the way a mother kangaroo snuggles her baby into her pouch. From electrodes in the pocket, the signal is fed through wires sewed into the linings to a cigarette-pack-sized transmitter housed in a thigh pocket. Via an aerial laced down the right leg, the impulse is broadcast to the main amplifier backstage and then blasted into the auditorium over the usual loudspeakers. To modify tone or volume, Hartman has only to turn a button on his left sleeve...
...report is as negative as the sources indicate, then the library corporation will either have to retract its statements or pack its bags and look elsewhere...
...shrug this off with a cynical, "Well, the Gallo pamphlet was probably a pack of lies," or an, "After all, the leftists are right, so it's OK if they don't let Gallo be heard?" If the right to be heard has come to be dependent on any one group's assessment of the truth, free speech is dead. Our radical organizations may be correct today; if they are wrong tomorrow, how shall we let it be known? And if those on the far right manage to keep us from speaking tomorrow, how shall we of the left appeal...