Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving Harry Truman's office last week, the Administration's congressional leaders stood in a little cluster, wearing the aggressively confident expressions that politicians put on when they face a pack of reporters. They let Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas do most of the talking. Recently returned to duty after a long bout with his stomach ulcers, he was a tailor's symphony in brown, and eager to make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press...
...safecrackers hung around for a week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
...Pack One. Other industries did likewise. Kling Furniture Factories brought out cheaper new lines and priced their regular furniture 4 ½% to 10% lower. Most of the major tiremakers had introduced low-priced tires and even some automakers were joining the parade: some "extras" became standard equipment. This week General Motors Corp. cut its auto prices from $10 to $40 as G.M. wages (tied to the cost-of-living index) came down 1? an hour...
...crowd, people chatted quietly. Old Man Warner snorted when he heard that folks in the north village were thinking of giving up the lottery. "Pack of crazy fools . . . nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves...
...Mannino and a homer by Cliff Crosby, which, coming right next to each other, had Arnold Galiffa prancing all over left field, from the foul line into deep left center. Galiffa appeared in left for the first time this season (he usually plays first) in a move calculated to pack more power in to the Army lineup...