Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order thus to pack the problem of the world into a neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent...
...Smeral's wife is Steel's sister. She was told to pack up and prepare to leave Czechoslovakia last week. The police who told her to pack told reporters that she had been caught "engaging in Communist agitation in the Ostrau industrial area...
...years this wolf, called Two Toes because of mutilations suffered escaping from traps, had led his hungry pack through the forests of eastern Arkansas. The pack killed hundreds of sheep, goats, cows. Near the scattered bones enraged cattle owners always found the tracks of a huge, two-toed...
Trappers, hunters, government rangers tried constantly and unsuccessfully to kill Two Toes. Last fortnight he and his pack killed 14 goats in one day. Describing this as murder, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest...
...clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead of obscenities, the gallerites heard a long, sprawly, not altogether coherent debate...