Word: parcelling
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...that is expectable - indeed, part and parcel of a game that puts knives on grown men's feet and clubs in their hands and sends them out to do battle on that most inhospitable of mediums: ice. No one knows precisely when the first hockey game-field or ice-was played. The enameled design on a 14th century French cruet shows figures playing a game with sticks and a stone or ball, and there are historians who claim that the field variety originated in ancient Greece or Persia. The actual name hockey was born, so goes one tale, when...
...finally got away from Colonel Ross, his deadpan boss in M.I.5, and is now operating a seedy, one-man detective agency on his own. Suddenly a mysterious envelope arrives with ? 200 and a locker key, followed by a phone call from a stentorian computer instructing him to deliver the parcel that he will find in a London airport locker to a Dr. Kaarna in Helsinki. The package, Palmer soon discovers, contains deadly, virus-infected eggs...
...Tiger Makes Out. On the dark streets of Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...
...Francisco Merchant James Ir vine could hardly have reckoned the size of the legacy he set up back in the 1880s, when he wove three Spanish land grants into a single parcel of Southern California countryside. Rolling 22 miles inland from the Pacific coast, his Irvine Ranch has remained virtually intact as an 83,000-acre spread, nearly six times the size of Manhattan...
...wage increases, and partly as a result of decreasing volume. REA now carries only 2% of its traditional specialty, small shipment haulage, while faster, more efficient truckers have cornered virtually all the market. What's more, it is now meeting competition from the Post Office Department's Parcel Post, once forbidden to carry parcels heavier than 20 Ibs., but under new regulations moving into heavier goods...