Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnam, and his subsequent death of starvation. One member of the delegation wished to let me know that he "admired my father very much" and was "very sad that he had died." However, he wished to inform me that rumors that my father had died of starvation were a pack of lies, it had been a mere natural illness. He did not take up my offer to read to him my mother's letters written over two and a half years. Must I believe she lied...
...wounded a 15-year-old boy when they used real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least 14 errors or outright fabrications. Its chief accusation: Daly's principal source, a British soldier named Christopher Spell, did not exist...
...meter mark, the Radcliffe varsity boat pulled a power ten and moved away from the pack. At the 1000 meter mark. MIT made its move on the rest. The final 40 strokes of the race were at all-out speed with the MIT boat and the varsity Radcliffe boat trading seat for seat in a see-saw battle to the finish...
Sitting in the VIP gallery near Nancy Reagan, White House Congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf thought he counted some 70 Democrats standing up too. Said he jokingly to an aide: "Can't we count this as our vote and pack up and go home?" Friedersdorf was referring to the fact that Reagan needs up to 40 Democrats to join the Republicans, minus a small number of defectors, in order to carry his program through the Democratic-controlled House. Behind Reagan at the Speaker's desk, Democrat Tip O'Neill noted the applauding members of his party, turned...
Halliday sees the Crimson's biggest weakness as the small size of its pack, which weakens the ruggers' play in lineouts and scrums...