Word: packetizing
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...quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic but only on the surface. Sansom is a real bloodletter. Suicide, madness and irreparable loss are the themes of other stories, and in each case the atmosphere is created with the soft, ghostly touch of a man who could feel at home in a haunted house...
...lean little Indonesian commandos swirled up in dusty U.S. trucks and mounted guard over Dutch ships and port facilities. In the capital itself, workers of the Communist-dominated SOBSI (an all-Indonesia association of trade unions) ejected Dutch officials from the gleaming white colonial buildings that house the Royal Packet Service Co. (K.P.M.) and the Netherlands Handelsbank...
Work & Play. Billy went through Groton and Princeton ('36). while Cousin Fred, at his princely estates at Newport and in Europe, taught him to work hard and play hard. At midnight after a 17-hour day, Prince often gave Billy a packet of francs and sent him off to the casinos to learn how to lose gracefully. While Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire...
...amazing display of well-bred wage restraint. But at long last, a new militancy is in the air, and a new spokesman-thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership-has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades Union Congress that "rejects the principle of wage restraint and reaffirms the determination...
...himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...