Word: packets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he finds out the family has a packet, which is just what he needs to put a new show on the road-he's flopped so often the commercial managers won't give him beans for hopscotch. So he offers the poor silly girl a theoretical part in a hypothetical show and, taking no chances on her old man, offers her a walk in church besides. Never mind he's twice her age. Never mind poor Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie), the old bag he's been married to for 20 years...
...vast company of experts and workers, and by Brothers Bobby and Ted, Jack Kennedy was ready to pluck the fruit of seeds he had nourished so well over the months. In his pocket, secured, checked and double-checked like an audit of the U.S. Treasury, was his packet of certain votes so persistently gathered around the nation. And yet, with all the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedys were allowing for mischance, miscalculation-the sudden outbreak of an emotional riot, perhaps, that might start delegates stampeding in the wrong direction...
Burpee's 910,000 mail-order home garden customers bought nearly 7,000,-000 packets of seeds last year, ranging from Surecrop stringless wax beans (20?) to the Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower hand-pollinated double petunias ($2 for a packet of 100 seeds), the most expensive seeds Burpee sells...
...dead blokes like him as have the whiphand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it always will be that way, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am-always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam-than have the whiphand over someone else and be dead from the toenails...
...Sylvie's own knowledge that all she really wants of life is forbidden love. Failing to receive it on her terms, she is acute enough to know that her real adversary is God, and that he has won. Out on the street with a hangover and half a packet of dope to reinforce her vision, she plays bullfighter, passes her cape over the hoods of passing cars until...