Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when we set out for the shore, and this was no time to desert. I put on my jacket, buckled on my belt, and shouldered my pack...
...camera was developed for the Surgeon General's Office, which wanted rapid, perfect, foolproof pictures of surgical operations. The inventors have great hopes for it. At present the gadget is a typical military job: too expensive and too heavy. The "power-pack" which provides the current weighs 27 Ibs. But by spring, it may be streamlined for the civilian market into a lighter, more practical model...
...wife rather sadly that he had gotten bald and heavy. She wrote back gently: "You will find that three years has done quite a bit to me, too." A partially paralyzed ex-defense worker gave his six-year-old daughter a doll, his nine-year-old son a pack of cards, told them to shut their eyes because more was coming, and shot them through their heads...
Reporter Basque knocked on door after door; always someone else was in charge. "Bande d'imbeciles/" he growled, "Pack of fools!" At length he found himself shunted back where he had started. "Quelle pagaie!-What a mess!" he cried, and left...
...such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...