Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaskans have never seen a wolf pack, do not know anyone who has (counting a pack as more than five, which is a family...
Remember the Cardiff? Nearly 21 years ago she steamed proudly (her nose was wet; she never learned how to take a header) up the broad Firth of Forth, with the Friedrich der Grosse and the other beaten Germans in her wake-a wagging Welsh terrier leading a pack of drooping greyhounds...
...Phoebe Titus' friends compared her to a pack rat, another to Joan of Arc. Neither would have been surprised had she sold the territory short when the Federal troops were withdrawn at the Civil War's outbreak, leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin...
...National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed or they would pack up their rackets...
...illustrate news stories about the adjournment of Congress, Washington cameramen went to call on the Vice-President's secretary-wife, Marietta Rheiner ("Ettie") Garner, 61, hoping to find her packing. Mrs. Garner had not yet begun to pack, but amiably dug up a few old grips, let herself be posed for pictures, then turned the tables...