Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Television's second season is that midwinter's madness time when network leaders turn upon their pack of shows. They mercilessly thin out the old, the weak and the lame, while encouraging the newborn to join their endless trek across the TV tundra. This year the second season has produced three newcomers that seem certain to survive into the 1974-75 season. They...
HARVARD HAS been in Cambridge as long as Cambridge has existed, and the University has made plans to stay around for at least another millenium. So it is difficult to imagine Cambridge without its universities, despite occasional pleas by local residents for the professors to pack up their bags and relocate on Route...
That reminded someone else of the times when they were kids that they'd hear the mosquito control truck coming into their neighborhood. They'd race out of bed and into the garage and hop on their bikes and a whole pack of buddies would pedal like runway fools into the thick white cloud of kerosene and DDT sprayed out of a nozzle at the back. "There wasn't any chemical high to it," said the son of a dairy farmer, "but it sure was cool looking into that cloud for a while." And about the time their lungs...
...Then I had to walk half a mile back to Spudnick's and get some help. Sheriff took me home, and Rick picked up my motorcycle. Last bike I had a wreck and somebody saw two sheriffs pack it in the trunk of their cruiser and drive away with it. I was in no position to demand it back at the time. It's kinda fucked up, but at least...
...total quantity of alcohol in a drink and the rate of consumption determine the alcohol level in the bloodstream. Thus a Scotch and water would pack the same punch as Scotch on the rocks or a Scotch and soda if all three were drunk at the same speed; drinking more slowly gives the system a chance to eliminate some of the alcohol. The mixing of different types-beer, wine, whisky and brandy, for instance-might make a drinker sick, but it would not make him any more drunk than the same alcoholic measure of just one of these drinks...