Word: pack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aggressive start placed us in the middle of the pack, and with a relaxed sense of power, we gradually reeled in Yale’s three-quarter-length advantage in the body of the race course,” he said. “In the final quarter of the race, we held a commanding lead over Yale and withheld a flutter from Pennsylvania by raising the rate of striking in a burning sprint...
...Romney is on a roll right now. He jumped ahead of the pack in recent Iowa polls, a consequence of television advertising - he was on the air in Iowa before any of his competitors - and his strong debate performances. He has the money to play big in the Iowa straw poll this August. He has a perfectly Republican demeanor, sunny and businesslike, and a perfectly Republican stump speech. He tells a Chamber of Commerce lunch in Rochester, N.H., about how he successfully applied business principles like "strategic auditing" to the problems of Massachusetts. And then he hits the Reaganite stations...
What was it like being the only woman in the cast? BARKIN: Exhausting. CLOONEY: You're a woman? BARKIN: I tried to pack 14 of you into just a few weeks. It's a lot of ground to cover. CLOONEY: If there's anybody who could do it ... BARKIN: I started with Carl [Reiner] and worked back from there. CLOONEY: Only fair. He could go at any minute...
...what your paper's competition has. But the media market is so small in this country of 10 million that it often makes sense for the competing paparazzi to team up. Especially when the subject is working very hard to remain elusive. That's what's brought the paparazzi pack out here tonight in hooded sweatshirts and discreet earpieces as they maintain radio contact with one another in search of gaps in the protective shield provided by Brangelina bodyguards...
...there's a line he would never cross. "I find myself constantly pushing that line. I keep telling myself it's just a game," Puchta says with a sigh, his voice fading out. A few months earlier, he had the distinction of being the first in the paparazzi pack to snap a young widow after her aging husband, a famous pop composer, had blown his brains out. That "coup" did not make him feel especially proud. "A trained monkey can do it," says the tabloid lensman. "This is not photography. It's waiting around in a car. It starts getting...