Word: pack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides whiffing an odd mixture of chlorine and Ben Gay, the first things a swim spectator notices upon entering an aqua stadium are the huge team banners designating the territory of each pack of swimmers...
...label, recorded a two-disk punk masterpiece in just 45 hours. Artists on small labels also go without such freebies as drinks and buffets, which have become staples at some music firms. Refreshments at Twin/ Tone Records in Minneapolis, for example, are limited to an occasional twelve- pack of beer...
After the first two days of the 26-team competition, the squad has compiled 226 points, just 10 points behind fifth-place Princeton, but well off the pace set by the two leaders. Brown and Penn State. The Bruins and have virtually run away from the pack with Brown presently holding a 493-458 lead Yale is a distant third with 254 points...
...bullies them into permitting his unnamed, hush-hush government agency to install surveillance agents in the upstairs front bedroom. The targets of this scrutiny turn out to be the Krogers: they have fabricated their personal histories, and are suspected to be part of a Soviet spy ring. But Pack of Lies, a West End hit now on Broadway, is only secondarily about espionage. As in his play and film Stevie, a small masterpiece that starred Glenda Jackson, Whitemore is more interested in private drama: the anguish of having to uproot one's bedrock beliefs about people, the calamity that results...
Another thing he did was to hang a defiant sign challenging passersby to a game of checkers. After a preamble about the history of the game, the sign exhorts earnestly: "Let's play checkers. Free six-pack of Cokes if you win! I will play anyone!" He has never had to forfeit a six-pack...