Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Admiral Doenitz ordered his U-boats to cease hostilities-a convoy bound for Boston battled with a wolf pack and lost the collier Black Point, with twelve dead. One sub which dived to the bottom, 130 feet down, was destroyed by depth bombs...
...crowd one woman stood out, a tall blond woman in a grey-green woolen suit with a green alpine hat, woolen stockings, and heavy walking shoes. Despite the pack on her back, she walked erect...
...women go where the bulldozers have not gone and the trucks cannot go. They carry their burdens on their backs, holding them with thin, woven bamboo head straps. Each woman takes up to 50 pounds, one-fourth the load saddled on pack horses on the same trails. But there are six times as many Igorot women available as pack horses...
...responsibilities of a President's wife; for both the First Lady and her daughter the glare of publicity. Newspapers immediately began to speculate on the chances of Mary Margaret eventually affording the capital the excitement of a White House wedding. After Eleanor Roosevelt had had time to pack, Bess and Mary Margaret Truman would move into the Executive Mansion...
...over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...