Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which refused to lay down and sell their...
...onetime wife of Elmer W. Ross, St. Louis public accountant, and mother of a six-year-old; secretly in St. Louis, a month ago. Last week they left for Santiago, Chile, where he is employed. Said Senator Reed to reporters who suggested that he had disinherited Reed Jr.; "A pack of fairy tales...
...Pack up all my care and wee Here I go, singing low, Bye, bye, blackbird...
...smell of strong soap in the corridors . . . children yelping and running, like a pack of hounds, in the early morning . . . the grimy carboniferous smell of the class room . . . children whispering and scratching their pens as the sun swings a golden ruler through the chalk notes . . . bells ringing for recess . . . the musty smell of a class room after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages...
...research party were five guides and pack-men and two other undergraduates of the University. John de Laittre '29 and W. R. Maclaurin '29. Thirty peaks never before scaled were conquered by the group of mountaineers, and a thorough study was made of the geology, glaciation, topography, and natural history of the regions explored...