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Word: packeted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freezing night last week, a burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: An Offer the Soviets Refused | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin, which when melted in hot water becomes Flex Flesh and can be shaped in a variety of plastic molds. The skin-thin horror mug is kept in place with spirit gum and can take makeup. New York's Pressman Corp., which makes the sets, has sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Odds & Trends | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Finally one morning, Margulis got the order for the chicken sandwiches that Hughes [always asked for when he] was going off on a plane. [Margulis] made up a packet, along with the mandatory bottle of Poland water, and helped Hughes descend from his hideout down the service elevator to the hotel garage. With his snap-brim hat and his leather jacket, the man who had broken the round-the-world flight record almost forty years earlier boarded an old Daimler limousine and went off to relive the joys of long-gone days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes from the Hidden Years | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Michael A. Kennedy '80 never had an identity crisis until he came to Harvard. He got his first shock at registration, where the biographical information about his mother in his registration packet bore no relation to the woman who reared...

Author: By Thomas A. Mullen, | Title: Names Beguile, Befuddle, Bedevil Harvard Doubles | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

Misplaced phone calls are the most common ailment of the Harvard Doubles. Michael A. Brown '80, who discovered he was half of a Double when he received an expository writing assignment for Michael G. Brown '80 in his registration packet, often receives calls for Michael G., who does not have a phone...

Author: By Thomas A. Mullen, | Title: Names Beguile, Befuddle, Bedevil Harvard Doubles | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

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