Word: packetizing
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Monk was arrested along with Bud Powell when a packet of heroin was found in their possession. Monk had always been "clean," but he refused to let Powell take the rap alone. "Every day I would plead with him," Nellie says. " 'Thelonious, get yourself out of this trouble. You didn't do anything.' But he'd just say, 'Nellie, I have to walk the streets when I get out. I can't talk.'" Monk held his silence and was given 60 days in jail...
...vitamin container that is an apothecary jar, the instant coffee jar that becomes a glass pitcher. Portion packaging has also become popular. Campbell Soup has expanded its Swanson TV frozen dinners to include soup and dessert in a single paper-and-foil container. Dow Chemical has developed a packet made of plastic, paper and foil that holds individual portions of butter. But it was left to Allied Chemical to come up with a plastic container shaped like a martini glass. Inside: gin and vermouth...
...plug-nutty to notice that his furniture is gone. With a grin that slits his throat from ear to ear he runs off to tell all his horseplaying pals about the bookie who brought him luck. They get all the cash they can carry and stack the packet on a three-legged lizard whose owner can't even sell it for dog meat. "Eighty to one!" Lana gasps with relief. "Ha! Ha! Ha! It can't possibly...
...sculptured forest scene and is admired for it. "The communication of my life," she sums herself up, "a kiss in mid-ocean between myself and a half-drunken seaman. The creation of my life-oh my God!-a silver-paper shape fashioned from the remains of an empty cigarette packet...
...years. The young people cannot marry while Maria's father is alive, nor can they let him know that his life is thus a burden. The action of the book be gins as Jahn and his small crew set sail again for Europe. Maria gives him a packet of letters that she has written during his stay and asks him to read one letter on each day of the voyage. He does, and their contents and his thoughts while reading them become the core of the book...