Word: pack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season develops, the Harvard men's basketball squad (11-11, 4-6 Ivy) has its sights set highly. Princeton (21-1, 9-0 Ivy) and Penn (14-10, 7-2 Ivy) lurk in waiting, ready to face a Crimson team that has stumbled to the middle of the pack...
These products pack Moscow's several malls and posh stores. Products that do not make it into these classy establishments spill onto the streets. Around every metro stop and in every underground crossing are makeshift kiosks and tables, called, lapki, that sell newspapers, fruit, books, CDs, videos, clothing, hats, groceries and whatever else the market will bear. This is capitalism at its rawest. Muscovites no longer need to wait in line for stale bread, and they know longer need to trade kitschy revolutionary pins for American blue jeans...
...media attention, Newt, Trent and the other GOP power players smugly believed they could just sit back and let the President destroy himself. There didn't seem to be much sense in sullying oneself in the mud of dirty allegations when the job was already being done by a pack of loose-lipped lawyers and reporters who smelled blood...
...19th century this definition underwent significant alterations, until the same entry in the 1904 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary read, "a feeling of intimate personal sympathy and affection toward an individual of the opposite sex." In both cases, love is equated with affection. But didn't the 1828 definition pack a considerably larger wallop in terms of its candidness and discrimination...
Frankly, this weekend comes at a rotten time for Harvard. The team is discouraged after poor performances against Brown and Yale; had it won those games, it would be 5-1 in the Ivies and knocking on Princeton's door. Now, it is in the middle of the pack, and even a stunning upset of Princeton will not help its standings significantly...