Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again, Sadat decided to listen to Saudi Arabian King Faisal, pro-American conservative among the Arab leaders, who assured him that a decisive break with the Russians would influence the United States to apply greater pressure on Israel. So in July 1972, Sadat told the Soviet military advisers to pack up and leave. Then he waited to see what the Americans would do, but nothing happened...
That is one reason perhaps why she has always been ready to pack in a hurry and trot off as a last-minute replacement. "You get a call in Bonn at 11 a.m. to be in Vienna to do the performance that night. I wonder if I can refresh my memory of the opera in time. Sometimes I haven't sung it for a year or two. I may listen to a tape of the opera for 20 minutes or so to see what's left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last...
Reruns of 'Father Knows Best" pack more excitement than a fencing battle between Harvard and Trinity. The Crimson had little problem handling the Bantams yesterday, with a sound 24-3 trouncing...
...icebergs, for example, he looks in the Propaedia under Part Two-The Earth; then under Division II-The Earth's envelope: its atmosphere and hydrosphere. Next, beneath the listing for "The distribution of water in the hydrosphere," he finds the heading "Ice." Finally he comes to "Icebergs and pack ice," with a reference to the appropriate section of a lengthy article in Volume 9 of the Macropaedia...
...plight of the weary pack, however, is minor compared to the afflication that has palsied the White House campaign press corps since 1969--gelded by the tactics of another White House martinet, press secretary Ronald Ziegler. The pressure to remain a conventional and submissive mass is crippling on Pennsylvania Avenue: If the writers don't stay in line, they risk Ziegler's "ominous pat on the back." After that they might expect to receive tax audits, be ignored at press conferences, or be manipulated into squabbles over scoops with colleagues from their own paper. When Clark Mollenhoff...