Word: packet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean little Indonesian commandos swirled up in dusty U.S. trucks and mounted guard over Dutch ships and port facilities. In the capital itself, workers of the Communist-dominated SOBSI (an all-Indonesia association of trade unions) ejected Dutch officials from the gleaming white colonial buildings that house the Royal Packet Service Co. (K.P.M.) and the Netherlands Handelsbank...
Work & Play. Billy went through Groton and Princeton ('36). while Cousin Fred, at his princely estates at Newport and in Europe, taught him to work hard and play hard. At midnight after a 17-hour day, Prince often gave Billy a packet of francs and sent him off to the casinos to learn how to lose gracefully. While Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire...
...amazing display of well-bred wage restraint. But at long last, a new militancy is in the air, and a new spokesman-thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership-has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades Union Congress that "rejects the principle of wage restraint and reaffirms the determination...
...himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...
...Catherine was inexact and totally haphazard. Visitors were often startled to find her wandering about on the way to her bath draped in nothing but a large towel. She conducted her charitable works with disarming inefficiency and brilliant success. One convalescent home received from her the gifts of a packet of seeds, a canary, a piano; another, a cow ("animals are first-rate to interest people...