Word: packets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stifling provincial town, she takes the bereft children and her handsome brother-in-law Ramiro (Carlos Estrada) under her roof. She rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears in his undershirt looking flagrantly virile. When Ramiro proposes to her, she spurns his suggestion as "distasteful." When he rashly tries to force himself upon her one morning, she flees...
...deep crevasse, was rope-hauled out by Whittaker. The trio slept out at the high camp, next day completed the assault. Bobby himself took the lead for the final 50 yds., and arriving at the pinnacle placed there a copy of Jack Kennedy's inaugural address, a packet of PT-boat tie clasps, similar to the ones that the late President used to give visitors and voters. He also planted the Kennedy family flag-a shield showing three gold helmets on a black background, topped with a hand holding four gold-tipped arrows. Bobby meant to leave the flag...
...founding convention in San Francisco as "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper." South Africa's Jan Smuts, a veteran of the ill-fated League of Nations, was equally hopeful. After scribbling a rough draft of the U.N. Charter's preamble on a cigarette packet, he told reporters: "This time we will pull it off. We have learned our lesson now." But there were many bitter lessons ahead as the U.N. met reality...
Included in Dietz's packet--which he dispatched special delivery to the Councillors Sunday evening--is a seven page statement, two maps, two pictures, and a copy of a letter opposing the bridge from Ralph N. Helverson, minister of the First Church (Unitarian...
...most common by far are the stalls into which a customer drives and stops his car. By inserting a quarter, he gets a five-minute jet stream of water and detergent through a high-pressure hose that he uses to spray the car. Another dime gets him a packet of lintless paper towels with which to dry the car, and yet another dime turns on a vacuum cleaner for the interior. Though quick and experienced washers can get away with one quarter, most find that it takes two or three to complete the job properly, also find that they need...