Word: pack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fail to see why the fate of the Administration should be in part decided by first Cox's and now Jaworski's wolf pack of bright young things out of that New York "humanist" school [Dec. 3]. They are the type that wants to give us abolition of the death penalty, gun control (job insurance for the working street goon), mass busing (so your kids and mine can get mugged for sociology's sake) and all the other claptrap we rejected in the last national election...
...eclipsed even the growing excitement over Comet Kohoutek. Completing a 21-month voyage across the bleak, cold reaches of more than half a billion miles of space, the 570-lb. robot gave man his first close-up look at the giant planet Jupiter. After penetrating intense radiation belts that pack radiation dosages at least 1,000 times the level regarded as lethal for humans, Pioneer passed just 81,000 miles above the multicolored Jovian cloud tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet...
...University was simple: Harvard is a prestigious institution, one not easily bullied even by a utility giant such as Consolidated Edison. Harvard owns 300 acres of land crucial to the project. And if Harvard were to announce its opposition and a steadfast refusal to sell, Con Ed might just pack up and go home...
...order to pack the richness of these tales into his illustrations, Sendak spent years soaking himself in myth and lore. He studied German and traveled to the mountains and forests where German children hear the originals. During this time, Sendak and Segal winnowed their favorite stories from the original 210. "By the time I was ready to draw," says Sendak, "I felt that the stories were my own." Indeed, he even put his German shepherd Erda into Hansel and Gretel...
Perhaps harshest of all was Oregon's Republican Senator Bob Pack wood, who told Nixon that "credibility has always been your short suit." He observed that "when one person gives his word to another, that is a bond which those of us in politics revere highly. Congress believes you breached your word in the firing of Cox." And he told Nixon: "For too long this Administration has given the public the impression that its standard of conduct was not that it must be above suspicion, but that it must merely be above criminal guilt. Mr. President, that...