Word: packetizing
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...thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British." Two bricks came crashing through the store window. Scooping up their children, the 'wives ducked behind the store...
...Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring at Temple, Pete soon forgets about money, and Temple almost forgets about honor and duty, until her Negro maid Nancy gives her a melodramatic lesson in both...
...dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...
...Cars are rolling off the Willow Run assembly line at the rate of 900 a day (half Kaisers, half Henry J.s), and dealers have more orders than they can handle. With an estimated $500 million in defense orders on the books, including an Air Force contract for Fairchild Packet cargo planes, another for Wright aircraft engines, K-F seemed a likely candidate to join the other profitable Kaiser enterprises...
...shipwreck on the rock; the has taken their names from an old log-book, and given them substance in his mid. He talks and moves and lives with these people; through a series of flashbacks he mentally reconstructs the events which brought them onto the pitching Lake packet. These flashbacks, with their imagined characters interacting with a real one, make for an awkward and difficult movie, but "Thunder Rock" overcomes this difficulty...