Word: packed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger than a pack of cigarettes, the arsonists' bombs are expertly fashioned from a minuscule penlight battery, a wristwatch, a flashlight bulb and incendiary chemicals (potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate) that can be bought at local drug stores. Often tucked under a pile of fabrics in a crowded store, the minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office...
That is how much of the world beyond its borders feels about the U.S. today. All too widely, the country is regarded as a blood-drenched, continent-wide shooting range where toddlers blast off with real rifles, housewives pack pearl-handled revolvers, and political assassins stalk their victims at will...
Owners of rifles and shotguns must be 18, and need only the basic I.D. Those who would pack a pistol or revolver must also be at least 18, and need two additional permits (total cost: $5) to purchase and carry a handgun. Retailers must keep complete records of long-arm sales and must forward records of handgun sales to police...
Finally she got to Bobby. She knelt over him, whispering. His lips moved. She rose and tried to wave back the crush. Dick Tuck blew a whistle. The crowd began to give way. Someone clamped an ice pack to Kennedy's bleeding head, and someone else made a pillow of a suit jacket. His blue and white striped tie was off, his shirt open, the rosary clutched to his hairy chest. An aide took off his shoes...
...last of the legislators to emerge was Chairman Wilbur Mills. "The House conferees have concurred," he said, "in the Senate amendment on the 10% surcharge." Mills walked toward the elevator, the reporters trailing in an expectant pack behind him. "The ceiling," he added, tossing off billions, "has been fixed at $180.1." Thus one of the most important legislative battles of recent years neared its climax. In the process, Lyndon Johnson, once the master of Congress, suffered the most decisive and humiliating rebuff of his presidency from his former colleagues on Capitol Hill...