Word: packed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they finally give up and decide that vegetarianism will not flourish in an impoverished country of starving, terrorized peasants controlled by the secret police, pack up their yeastrol and barmene, their departure is called "heroic." That such indomitable optimists are set back by Haiti is supposed to show us how terrible the situation is, but all it does is make us cringe with embarrassment for their feeble, blundering blindness...
Rusk, who usually betrays anger only by puffing faster and harder at his Larks, ran out of cigarettes but not out of patience. A Secret Service man finally located a pack in a briefcase; the Secretary lit up, and the inquisition was resumed. At 12:55 Rusk pointed to his watch, announced "an important appointment at 1 o'clock that I should meet if I can." The appointment was at the White House for another meeting on Viet Nam strategy, and the Senators obligingly...
Last week Marcos announced that the police and armed forces have so far seized nearly $1,000,000 in contraband. Indicative of the crackdown, the price of a pack of smuggled U.S.-made "Blue Seal" cigarettes in Manila has climbed in the past month from the normal 500 to 650, suggesting a distinct and abrupt shortage...
...womanly baritone laughs a line home. Waves of appreciation break across the stage. The timing matches Bankhead's; the zany movements beat Bea Lillie's. It is just as nobody predicted: Lauren Bacall can pack them in the theater the way she packed them in the movies back in the '40s when she was Mrs. Humphrey Bogart. "Looks like I'm one hell of a Broadway draw," she drawls...
Commodities or Cash. What swappers want frequently requires at least a three-way trade. In Moscow, state-owned tobacco stores recently offered Muscovites unaccustomed to blended tobaccos West German cigarettes at 33? to 38? a pack. The West Germans had accepted Bulgarian tobacco in exchange for cigarette-paper machinery, processed much of the tobacco into cigarettes that were sent back to Bulgaria; the Bulgarians shipped them on to Russia in payment for more machinery. Sometimes, the trade is not so simple. Lebanon, burdened by a glut of apples, managed to swap some to Jordan in exchange for 40 army tanks...