Word: packed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows may not pack much fun, but they ooze prizes. Winners have carted away $14,000 cabin cruisers, a day's traffic tolls of the Golden Gate Bridge, a thoroughbred entered in the '59 Kentucky Derby. Home participation via postcard is so common that the U.S. post office probably hauls in more loot than the contestants. A quiz sampler...
...make the next move, ask for a U.N. summit meeting. Macmillan's note went further; it expressed "hope" that Khrushchev would attend the U.N. Security Council, noted that it would not be the purpose of the meeting "to register differences through voting," i.e., Khrushchev would not have to pack a veto...
...pushed the good grey BBC out of the popularity contest altogether. No BBC program, according to TAM (Television Audience Measurement Ltd.), is now a serious contender for the ten regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
...clear: 2.3 times as much lung cancer in smoke-palled belts as in cleaner areas. But to the identity of the cancer-causing substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack a day) and nonsmokers. But among men who smoked more than a pack a day, the death rate rose, paradoxically, far faster in rural, smog-free areas. Explanation? Dr. Stocks had none...
Portia side-stepped into the Porcellian doorway (to the red-eyed dismay of a vanishing aristocrat who had chanced to the building in high hopes of a little wit and bourbon). She was just in time to avoid a pack of Summer School girls prowling the walk in search of males. "Mouse-trap," "parietal rules," and "sports car" drifted back from their grim and whispered ruminations...