Word: packeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford directed his staff to assess what had happened and why. Just a few hours before Queen Elizabeth arrived, Ford penciled into his greeting text: "Something wonderful happened to America this past weekend." When he found out that his staff had made a packet of his six Bicentennial speeches, he asked for a few to give to friends, his pride in his own words reaching a new height...
...currency bound for banks abroad. The packages, they said, had been prepared improperly by Purolator. After they presented credentials that police later said were "impeccable," airline officials handed the money over. The pair moved on to the cargo strong room of British Airways' European division, where another packet of francs was collected in the same...
...fact of independence first spread among colonial readers. By early this week the city's five other newspapers?a concentration that makes Philadelphia the publishing capital of the former colonies?had either reported the Declaration or were preparing stories on it. The Evening Post and Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet have published the entire text, and Printer Henrich Miller has translated the "Erklärung" into German for his Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote...
...articles on both sides of the independence issue. A few months later, Portsmouth Printer Daniel Fowle, self-professed champion of press freedom, was summoned before the New Hampshire House of Representatives to answer for an article in his Gazette attacking independence; his paper has not appeared since. New York Packet Publisher Samuel Loudon reports that he was warned recently by the local Committee of Safety not to distribute a pamphlet he had printed for a client who wanted to answer Paine's Common Sense "lest my personal safety be endangered." That night a group of men forced their way into...
...house (she is reported to have said that they never consummated the marriage, but his only comment is, "It is nobody's business but my own"). Thus cheered on his way, he begged a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia, then in London, and boarded a packet for the New World...