Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty in finding some 54 of the 96 Senators who seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack the Court with six justices, to pack it with one was no better. He needed 49 for a clear majority, but now there were baiely 50 left and he wasn't sure of all those...
Three grizzled prospectors - Arrin Thorpe of the U. S., Joanes Van Steck, a Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold...
...Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team. Asked before the Princeton-Cornell meet whether he planned to run against the clock or the pack, studious Captain Brown parried: "I'll do the best I know...
...First Rebel to support his claim, that distinction really belongs to a band of Pennsylvania frontiersmen known as the Black Boys who, ten years before Lexington, captured two British forts, destroyed licensed pack trains carrying guns to the Indians, thumbed their noses while British generals and Royal Governor John Penn fumed and threatened or merely whimpered helplessly that "they use the Troops upon every occasion with such indignity & abuse that Flesh and Blood cannot bear it." Leader of these slippery, hard-hitting rebels (who insisted, however, they were as loyal subjects as any), was a man named James Smith. Central...
With the Indians quiet again, British traders hastened to restore the arms traffic to what it had been. This time the Black Boys did not merely complain. When a long pack train passed through, they shot the horses, burned the merchandise, horsewhipped the drivers, who streaked for Fort Loudon yelling for help. Commandant Grant obliged by making prisoners of eight Black Boys. The remainder called at the fort to demand their comrades be turned loose. Refused, Smith ordered an attack. The Black Boys blazed away all night, then slipped away and waited to intercept any messengers sent out. After more...