Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been to only a couple of movies in the last 20 years; he gets impatient over the lost time. His only relaxation, he says, is to run a mile a day, walk his beagle Patches and spend time with his grandchildren. Helms does not drink but smokes a pack of cigarettes over a couple of days. He carries Lucky Strikes in his shirt pocket and always offers one to visitors, sometimes thanking people when he sees them smoking. He seldom forgets his North Carolina roots...
...house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that had been seen roaming the streets for months, biting people and other dogs, turned out to be rabid. At least six people in town had to undergo painful and potentially dangerous rabies vaccination. In late March, Murphysboro was placed under indefinite quarantine, which means dog owners must keep their pets...
...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
...twice-removed had turned out to watch us poor, driven souls run by. To the right of our path in an empty field stood a small, unremarkable paint store with a ten-piece rock-and roll band perched on top. The music was such a boost that the entire pack sped up a full minute per mile, and I kept searching for hidden rock bands along the rest of the route...
Leading the pack of thinclad victories was Adam Dixon, who, in his first outdoor meet of the season, doubled in the 1500-and 800-meter events, setting new GBC records in both. In the latter event Dixon loped out of the pack in the first half lap and never looked back on the way to a 1:49.3 mark...