Word: packets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Einstein, no experimenter, launched the idea that mass and energy are the same thing, in different states. The matter in the nucleus or core of the atom (which is practically all the matter there is) was conceived as a packet of energy in highly concentrated form...
...last week Georges Mandel spoke to France again, as rasping and unafraid as ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
...down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water to a whole packet of soap powder...
...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...
...sitting at the next table when I sat down-a fresh-faced young man. . . . He did not look a day older than 21, I decided. He just sat there looking at the wall opposite and, after a moment, produced a packet of cigarets and began to fumble in his pocket for a match. I struck my lighter and ... he smiled his thanks...