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Word: packed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miami of Ohio club president Terry Jones says that his team's strongest asset is "a really excellent set of backs,"--with an experienced fly half and fullback anchoring the line. At an estimated 185 pounds per man, the Midwestern forwards are likely to be the smallest pack in the competition. Jones added that "the team has been able to make up for the lack of a tall jumper and average set play by hustling and playing in the loose well...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Ruggers Vie for National Championship | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

...ordinary feminist convention, this. The lesbians, sex kittens, Amazons and fashion models here pack the hotel; attired in leather and chains, gauze and spangles, disco Spandex and Southern belle white, they hang from the ceiling and leer out of doorways. Their cigarette smoke makes haze of the atmosphere; their singing and screaming and chanting and ranting produce an unholy, stupefying, din. They are painted like puppets; they contort and disport to uncanny visual effect...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

...leash laws. Some people have taken to shooting any dog, even a neighbor's innocent pet, that wanders onto their property. Meanwhile, dog catchers have been working overtime to round up strays. In one county, 1,400 dogs were caught last year. But almost as quickly as a pack is broken up, another appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Wild Dogs of Little Egypt | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...Marathon in 3 hr. 6 min. 49 sec. Still, Block was well to the rear of Toshihiko Seko, 24, a compact Japanese import who set a U.S. marathon record of 2:09:26, and New Zealander Allison Roe, 24, who came from down under and well back in the pack of 6,845 runners to set a new women's course record of 2:26:46. Block lists determination and endurance as his running mates. "You can't run a marathon without them," says he, "or the Department of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1981 | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...sold the A's last year to the Haas family, proprietors of Levi Strauss & Co., for $12.7 million. It looked like a rotten investment. But the A's, who drew a paltry total of 306,763 for 81 home games in 1979, happily watched 149,873 fans pack Oakland-Alameda Coliseum for the first six dates of the 1981 season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Oakland, a Record Blast-Off | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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