Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunned down in front of his Northwest Washington house on January 30, Senator John Stennis, 71, was well on the mend. "The old man is in good spirits," said one of his medics at Walter Reed General Hospital. "He's still got plenty of fire. He blew his stack when he heard about the Arabs killing the American ambassador!" Stennis will have to spend another month or so in the hospital before he is ready for discharge, but he is already thinking about Senate business. At his suggestion, Senator Stuart Symington presented a resolution on committee funding...
...distinguishing feature of Times Square is the clip joints which stack turntables, receivers, tape decks, casettes and digital clock radios from floor to ceiling in the 15-foot display windows. When we were in New York for Winter recess, one of these dives had broken away from the traditional display of commercialism and had instead plastered the entire storefront with copies of the recently released LP The Devine Miss...
...days passed, Byrne's choler mounted. With increasing disdain he denied prosecution motions to block revelation of the reports. The last of the studies finally arrived, and after reading the five-inch stack of documents, Byrne ruled last week that the bulk of them had to be turned over to the defense. Reason: They tended to prove the innocence of Ellsberg and Russo on at least some of the charges. According to the Government analyses, said, the judge, 13 of the 20 documents that Ellsberg and Russo released did not damage the national defense in any way-a seeming...
...wire." The impatient young man was Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, 22, a senior at Harvard University, son of and heir apparent to Nicaragua's ruling strongman, General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Debayle, 47. Summoned from a Manhattan debutante party to help with the relief effort, young Somoza stood atop a stack of Sears camping tents, surrounded by crates of Canada Dry, boxes of baby food and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Kellogg's Corn Flakes...
...into sleeping bags. Snow was melted into drinking water on the sun-warmed fuselage; pieces of Alka-Seltzer were added to reduce cravings for salt. Talk increasingly centered on food and on great meals they had eaten. One day rummaging for usable debris the bearded survivors stumbled across a stack of 40 plastic plates in the snow and laughed to the edge of hysteria...