Word: packeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tablespoons of Buisman's, long used in schools and hospitals, will double the yield of a pound of coffee. Another caramel-based extender, Coffee STRETCH, now being sold in 1,000 Denver-area grocery stores, is selling fast at about 69e for a half-ounce packet. It too boosts the yield of a can of coffee...
...Supply Officer Edwin Moore went on trial for allegedly trying to sell classified documents to the Soviet Union (TIME, Jan. 3). Moore was apprehended last December after tossing a fat manila envelope into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's residence in northwest Washington. Thinking that the packet might be a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change...
...Nonetheless, the powerful Trades Union Congress last week served notice about what should be included in the new budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey will present on March 29. The unions' price for going along with a third year of slim raises: a $4 billion expansionary packet to be allocated by the government to pep up the economy through a large income tax reduction and job-creation plans...
...path in suburban Oslo. As if by chance, she stopped to talk to a man. Suddenly the night air was filled with shouts. As some Norwegian counterespionage agents charged from behind trees and snowbanks, others jumped from cruising taxicabs. They swiftly wrestled the man to the ground, grabbed a packet that he had given Haavik and hustled the woman off to jail. The trusted, spinsterly Miss Haavik, who routinely handled secret documents, had been a Soviet spy for more than 27 of her 30 years in the Foreign Ministry...
...Moore." Had he telephoned the Russian embassy, he might have been wiretapped. Had he tried to broach the deal with the Soviets in a park or on a street, he might have been seen. Said the U.S. official: "He tried to do it the safe way by tossing the packet to them in the dark. He never figured they'd fumble it. The Soviets let an intelligence bonanza slip through their fingers...