Word: parcelled
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...night last week, while shots rang in the distance, a little man hurried furtively through the streets of Jerusalem with a parcel under his arm. He stopped at the house where the advance party (two men and two women) of the United Nations Palestine Commission was staying. Glancing quickly about him, he rang the doorbell, handed in his parcel, and dashed off. In the package were a chicken, a leg of lamb, carrots, lettuce, eggplant and two loaves of bread...
...without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss a small harem of hens until three weeks before a fight...
...bluebooks were dealt out at her first exam, she extracted the standard tools from the pocket of her blue jeans--pen, pencils, eraser, postcard. Then, unwrapping a dainty, paper-sheathed parcel, she laid on her writing board a spoon, a pink cup and saucer, a small white packet of sugar, a pink napkin. Beside, them she stood a thermos of piping hot coffee...
...stage is a program sketched in by the services, the State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and ACC subcommittees. Its goal: a new production minimum, which would probably run to 40 million pounds of airframe a year. Its double-barreled approach: 1) to move all first-class mail and parcel post by air; 2) to help airlines buy the new planes necessary to carry the load with federal loans and subsidies...
According to Wind, the two cannot be separated, as the aim of the artist is part and parcel of his aesthetic means...