Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Harvard didn't pack any cleats, but that turned out not to matter, as Kalil, sophomore Judy Collins and co-captain Daphne Clark all scored...
...cigarette that could: it came, it saw, it conquered. The trendiest smoke on college campuses these days emanates from Indian imports called beedies (from the Hindi bidi). About half the diameter of regular cigarettes and hand rolled in tendu (Indian ebony leaves), they look slightly like microcigars. Beedies, however, pack a much more powerful punch: up to 8% nicotine, versus the 1% to 2% in American cigarettes. The imports are composed of a species of tobacco different from that most commonly used by U.S. manufacturers. They also come in flavors: clove, menthol and even strawberry. Popular brands include Mangalore Ganesh...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...
...true: smoke does get in your eyes. A pack or more a day of cigarettes can double a smoker's odds of developing macular degeneration, a disease of the retina that can lead to blindness. SMOKING depletes the body of vital nutrients that may protect eyes from the disease...
...entirely different plateau. It was divided into 13 lucky subsections: clothing, shower gear, laundry paraphanalia, medical supplies, linens, for the desk, for studying, for maintenance, appliances, for the wall, for storage, food stuffs and, finally, the ever ambiguous etc. The List pretty much instructed us to pack the entire contents of our home and that of the closest neighbor. Families in town began designating entire rooms, entire wings to hold the extravaganza of supplies needed to insure a safe passage from home to the wild college scene...