Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to abortions in certain cases. "I've answered my last question on abortion," he announced at a press conference last month. That night in Atlanta, however, an insistent group of reporters asked again. An exasperated Bush launched into a weird rant. "You guys are just a pack," he said. "You come zooming in on something. Just take what I said, take it literally, take it figuratively, any where else. Put it down. Mark it down...
...package that bore a Reagan Administration label. But House Republicans brought up the whole package as a rider to the continuing resolution, even though no committee hearings had ever been held on some of the provisions. Their motive was primarily to embarrass the Democrats. The ploy worked: the pack age sailed easily through both House and Senate...
...Black Students Association (BSA) is planning to pack the courthouse at the January trial of Ephraim Isaacs v. Harvard University...
Every Monday evening at 6:30, a pack of 60 to 70 perspiring foreigners could be seen jogging through the crowded streets of central Moscow, rubbing elbows and sometimes knees with startled rush-hour pedestrians. The runners, most of them Western diplomats, called themselves the Hash House Harriers, after a group founded by three fleet-footed Britons in Kuala Lumpur some 50 years ago. Following a run of 2½ to five miles, participants of the Moscow ritual would engage in beer and banter at a Western embassy...
These past few days of campaign charge and countercharge have been an insult to almost any U.S. citizen's intelligence. Reagan saw Democrats as "a pack of pessimists" dragging us into the valley of fear. Mondale warned that the average American will "get poorer" under Reagan. Both contentions are provably false...