Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plot to Humiliate. His central theme was that any plan for inspection of missile sites was a Yankee plot to "humiliate"' Cuba. "What right has the U.S. to ask this? We are the victims. We do not accept it." If Cuba's Soviet ally wants to pack up its missiles and go home, said Castro, that was Russia's business, for "the strategic arms were not Cuban property." Cuba and Russia were still buddies, he went on, though he reserved the right as an equal to bring up later "some discrepancies between the Soviet and Cuban governments...
...race also ran into some bulldozing being done in the middle of the course, causing a jam of runners on the one side of the track. Many had already fallen in several pile-ups at the start, when some slower runners tripped in the pack...
Shotguns & Beans. There were some Nervous Nelly reactions in the U.S. The stock market, hardly a symbol of U.S. backbone, dropped sharply next day. In Tampa, sporting-goods stores reported a run on shotguns and rifles. In Dallas, a store reported brisk sales" Of an emergency ration pack of biscuits, malted-milk tablets, chocolate, pemmican and canned water. In Los Angeles, a Civil Defense warning that retail stores would be closed for five days in the event of war or a national emergency sent housewives stampeding into the supermarkets. In one, hand-to-hand combat broke out over the last...
...slave-ship captain, how to pack the cargo was but one of many vexatious commercial calculations. Another was whether to throw ailing slaves overboard or not. If they had something really contagious, it was a good move. If not, it was a needless loss of one of the most profitable cash crops in history. Salable slaves were continually trying to starve themselves to death too. But for this at least, civilized man's ingenuity had a remedy-a caliperlike instrument called a speculum oris (i.e., mouth opener). Its pointed shaft was hammered between the teeth of the recalcitrant black...
Although Dunster scared league-leading Leverett in the highlight of last week's action, the House Football League is rapidly turning into a two-team runaway. Both Leverett and Eliot picked up two wins during the week to remain far ahead of the scrambling pack...