Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago, at the sixth annual Cincinnati Regatta at Harsha Lake, the two favorites--Harvard and Brown--pulled away from the pack after 500 meters to set the stage for a fierce two-team race over the final 1500 meters...
...Caine Mutiny, tapes of David Niven reading his memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon; Bring On the Empty Horses), and a model of the Titanic that for some unexplained reason was glued together on deck during a heavy rainstorm. Such behavior might be attributed to the decision to pack 50 cases of beer and 32 cases of wine into the hull of the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial (Buckley discourses widely and brilliantly on many points of big- league sailing, although not, unfortunately, on punning for boat names, a practice that can be winsome in passing conversation but wincemaking when...
...going to pack all of our earthly belongings into a U-Haul and drive to Texas. We've never been there. We don't know anyone in Dallas. We are just going to go there," Gelber says. "Some people might find this terrifying. I find this terrifying. But we also think of this as an adventure. You could call it an adventure streak. you could call it a death wish...
...despite these contentions, Dukakis may be starting to emerge from the pack of Democratic would-be presidents and is, says Champion, "one of the serious heavyweight contenders in this business...
...always been: youngsters in search of heroes. The main consumers of the cheaper cards are six- to twelve-year-olds, with a smattering of older fans. To capitalize on their voracious appetites, the top three manufacturing concerns still sell a basic candy-store staple: 40 cents packs of 15 or 17 cards with gum, stickers or other bonuses. All the companies appeal to better-heeled and older baseball nuts. Topps, for one, markets more than a dozen specialty issues, including bronze and silver replicas, through hobby dealers. The company's deluxe "Tiffany" set of glossy cards on heavily coated paper...