Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pack howitzer is the principal 75-mm. weapon. *Broken down, it is moved on the backs of mules. It is also the organic weapon for paratroop field artillery units. Dropped in seven loads, the 75-mm. can reach action seven minutes after crew and parts leave the plane...
...George took special pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
What the uninitiated do not know and cannot know is that the world in which the mental patient moves is another world. I have thought that it is most like Through the Looking Glass, where all values are present and effective, but reversed; where a pack of tobacco given a fellow patient at Christmas had, he assured me, with moist eyes, but forgiving, "ruined his life"; where Fischbein is called Trelawny by his friends, Throckmorton, Goldberg, by his. In this world, you never can tell...
...gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity. Responsibility for the rise of Naziism is attributed to the ambitions...
...Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor picks him. And bluebloods.cannot elect a mayor in Boston, so they pack behind the Irishman most agreeable to them (like present Mayor Maurice Tobin...