Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll in the hay (not always with each other) than a knock on the head. The Charles were made into movies and a radio series. Hammett revelled in his creation. Mickey Spillane was still doing hard-boiled stuff, of course but Hammett was again ahead of the pack...
Just before dawn, a pack of Times Square ruffians comes running wildly after a terrified, nearly naked young man. The mob is close behind, screeching, cursing, lobbing bottles and beer cans at the victim...
...Army still draws upon its cache of 1.9 million .45s bought by the end of World War II. The Pentagon has decided to switch to the 9-mm because it will use ammunition standard among other NATO countries, will be lighter (roughly 2½ lbs.) than the .45 and pack nearly the same wallop. One other attraction cited by the Pentagon: the 9-mm will be "easier for women to deal with." The .45, which cost $25 in 1911, sold for $45 during World War II. Since the 9-mm model has yet to be chosen, and competitive bidding...
...sales in suburbs, in recreational centers and in national parks. It is an unrecognized tornado." Nor does this overstate the case. A special investigative team of TIME correspondents found that in Vienna, Ga., or Venice, Calif., a gram of coke was about as hard to find as a six-pack of Bud. Whether in a suburban high school outside Los Angeles, on Wall Street or Madison Avenue or in the interstices of ostensibly "straight" Middle America, $100 will rapidly summon up a gram of what goes for cocaine...
...history, as they say, is a pack of tricks the living play on the dead, then Mel Brooks, who should be good at this game, is playing with a very thin deck. In his recreation of four epochs (prehistory, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition and the French Revolution), he uses only two cards: cruelty and scatology. They are not aces. They are not even jokers...