Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half, Sophomore Fullback Martin Sabelli dribbled out of the defense completely unchallenged and blasted a 35-yard rocket that bent the Engineer's crossbar. Ayraut picked up the rebound in a crowded penalty box, but was sandwiched by three MIT defenders. The ball squirted out of the goalmouth pack and a hovering Berkman jammed it into the twines from eight yards...
Think about the role scientists play in these movies. In "Close Encounters of the Third-Kind," they are a sinister pack of bureaucrats who stifle the simple, pure-hearted spirits of the U. F. O. witnessers. Indiana Jones, the anthropologist hero of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," is spared the ark's deadly wrath only because he refuses to look at it, hardly the most scientifically curious of approaches. The various technicians who tromp through the haunted house in "Poltergiest" are useless, for all their sophisticated machinery, in the face of the specters who have set up shop there...
...journey south to rendezvous with the Benjamin Bowring, the expedition almost met with disaster. The ice pack had begun to break up, and the two explorers were forced to wait on an ice floe for 99 days. Despite a series of mishaps and a few brushes with polar bears, they were able to survive until the ship pushed to within seven miles of them. Said Fiennes...
...could hear them. With help from engineers at the Illinois firm of Knowles Electronics, he produced a miniature magnetic earphone with two channels. One channel amplifies high-pitched sounds; the other shifts lower pitches upward into the range heard by ultra-audiometrics. The earphone is wired to a battery pack and microphone...
When Advertising Executive Todd Lief, 47, gave up his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit a few years ago, he put aside his tobacco money to buy an Apple computer. His wife Jo, 44, a Chicago family therapist, supported the idea. At least at first. Then she discovered that computers, like cigarettes, can be habit forming. "He really got into it," she says. "After a while, I felt angry-abandoned. On a sunny, beautiful day he would sit at the computer for eight hours straight...