Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reputation on his faithfulness as a reporter rather than on his skill as an artist. As he wrote in a catalogue of his paintings, "Since every painting has been made from nature by my own hand-and that too when I have been paddling my canoe or leading my pack horse over and through trackless wilds, at the hazard of my life-the world will surely be kind and indulgent enough to forgive me from their present unfinished and unstudied condition as works...
...loved Good Humors because they had chocolate shells. And I loved it when, on a summer night, my grandmother would give me 35? (I think it was 35?, my memory is as fragile as my teeth) and send me to the store where the druggist would personally pack a half-pint container with Breyers' best. Two flavors. Whatever my grandmother fancied, plus chocolate...
They come in two flavors, Pralines 'N Cream, with a kind of butterscotch overcoat, and Jamoca Almond Fudge, sheathed in chocolate. Sometimes, I buy a six-pack of Jamoca Almond Fudge bars, eat two of them on my way home from work, and finish the rest before the 11 o'clock news. I know it's disgusting, but I don't care any more. And besides, it's a lot cheaper than whisky or cocaine...
...fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead. It seemed that ants had crawled into the air vents...
...from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...