Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will waltz into office with his usual ease. And David Sullivan--who came within 20 votes of Walter's total during the 1979 election, is also but guaranteed a slot, thanks to the solid tenant organization he has built. Most likely they will run at the head of the pack again: Walter is intent on keeping his top-of-the-ticket showing intact, so intent that he has been rounding up support from former Crane supporters, votes the might have been of more help to some of the weaker Independents...
...crowds leave the big top for the last time, there is talk of other fairs carrying on Danbury's traditions. But the old-timers know better: they pack up their ribbons and memories with quiet resignation. Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators. Or the drenching downpours of 1939, or the clear, crisp days that came to be known as "Leahy's Luck." Or even Cheetah the chimp, who ate hot dogs, swilled soda and adjusted her sunglasses...
...response of unprecedented numbers of whites, who still run most of Zimbabwe's commerce and agriculture, has been to pack up and leave. Some 18,000 to 20,000 have departed since the beginning of the year, reducing the country's white population to an estimated...
...Dixon, out since the second meet with an injured knee, did not even make the trip, and Shepard was prevented from running because of a serious groin pull. Johnson, a gutsy Eliot House resident, ran in the meet despite a sore ankle but finished near the end of the pack...
...great second row. He is really strong and he can always be counted on to move his side of the pack," says Tom Sikorski, the second row on the other side of the Crimson pack...