Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Playwright Noel Coward, visiting the U.S. for the first time since the war began, divulged his formula for enduring during air raids: "When the warning sounds I gather up some pillows, a pack of cards and a bottle of gin, tuck myself beneath the stairs and do very nicely with the consolations of a drink and solitaire until 'All Clear' sounds...
Hollings, who spent about an hour in front of the arena greeting delegates, predicted only that he would make a "good impact" here today, adding, even if he finishes at the bottom of the pack, he can make a comeback...
...movement are a function of its intensity; alone and in coalition the right to lifers have taken special interest politics to its illogical extreme. In contrast with other single issue groups the anti-abortion activists have not been content merely with lobbying. These organizations forthrightly undertook a program to pack Congress with politicians not only sympathetic to, but also actively involved in the right to life movement. In 1976, Ellen McCormack ran for President of the United States on the abortion issue...
...uneasy encounters between newcomers and natives in the ruburbs have historical precedents going back to Massasoit and the Pilgrims. The Indian chief surely wondered who were these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...
...Last March, a 21-year-old mother of two walked into Big Dan's tavern in New Bedford, Mass., to buy a pack of cigarettes. A man in the bar threw her to the floor, stripped her and hoisted her onto a pool table, where he and three companions took turns raping, sodomizing and beating the woman. Other patrons cheered the rapists on, screaming...