Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are known as "designer drugs." Manufactured in clandestine laboratories from readily available chemicals, synthetic drugs can pack many times the wallop of cocaine and heroin, cost little to produce and are rarely detected in ordinary drug tests. Many experts fear that they may form the next drug epidemic...
...familiar territory -- small towns and horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built for speed and just the thing to get country music back on the track...
...explain what we mean to the average Joe Six-pack," she said. "We've got to move from the scholars to people whose lives are actually threatened...
...Pack a universal drain stopper for Samarkand and a pepper mill on any trip. If you fancy a great British breakfast in London, bypass Claridge's and make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from...
...Hold your tickets," Holding says. "We've got a photo for the win." The crowd murmurs with excitement. In seconds he has pulled the Polaroid pack from a superannuated Speed Graphic at the finish line. To a mixture of cheers and groans, he proclaims Pigmalion the winner -- by a snout, of course. Pigmalion's supporters happily line up to get a key ring from Heinold Hog Market of Kouts, Ind., sponsor of the races. Admission and a betting ticket are free. Wagering for money is strictly prohibited...