Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freedom of the press must be answered by the question, "Whose freedom and whose press?" Those who envision deep investigative reporting from journalists no longer hampered by legal threats, he argued, fail to perceive the obstacles never faced in the courtroom--pressures from management and the rest of the "pack," the inevitable effects of a grinding marathon beat, and of simple human frailty...
...murders, and Jackson talks about crime as a problem much the way that Coleman Young does. "This city has never seen the kind of offensive we are going to mount against drugs, criminality and homicide," he pledged last week. "Those who are in dope in this city had better pack their bags...
...biggest spectator sport? Answer: Dog racing. The turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...
About a dozen of the young ladies who really make the White House run decided that a snowman was needed to brighten the South Lawn. During their lunch hour they went outdoors and formed an assembly line. The snow would not pack, so they got buckets of water, sloshed it around, and produced a handsome fellow at least six feet tall...
Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...