Word: packeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RESIST. a Cambridge based national draft-resistance group, released last night the fourth packet of stolen FBI documents taken from the Bureau's Media; Pa., office March...
...really knows what causes cancer, which is actually more than 100 distinct diseases, all snaring two common characteristics: rapid cell growth and a terrifying tendency to spread from one part of the body to another. Most researchers agree, however, that the villain is a virus, a miniature packet of nucleic acid with a membranous coat that was shown as early as 1911 to cause tumors in animals...
Prime Minister Olof Palme says that any wage packet over 7% to 9% would "threaten the economy of the country." Supporting Palme, the government's collective bargaining agency, Avtalsverket, ordered the lockouts in hopes of draining the unions' tills as fast as possible and forcing them back to the bargaining table. Significantly, blue-collar unions have not walked out, though their average annual wage ($4,900) is less than half that of the striking white-collar workers ($10,200). Palme, committed to what he calls "increased equality" in Sweden, has promised legislation that will close the broad...
...crew haircut, and he keeps telling us to share our feelings. One addict, Arthur, admits that he has half a pack in his pocket. "Put it on the table," the doctor suggests. Reluctantly, he does. As we watch, horrified, a sincere young mod named Lana picks up the packet and shreds the cigarettes. Shaken, we head for our bunks...
...Cubists' subject matter was drawn from the life they lived as virtually penniless men-in studios, on the street, or swigging a marc at some cafe. The packet of cigarette papers in a Braque, the jug in a Juan Gris or the boxy village houses hemmed by bulging trees that Leger painted in 1914 could be taken for granted as subjects; their anonymity not only connected them to ordinary life but also focused a viewer's attention on what was happening within a new language of painting...