Word: unpackings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miles later, the adventurers raced the spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union Jack into the icecap, then scrambled to unpack their celebratory feast: a chocolate Easter egg and a magnum of champagne, which at that latitude was, of course, "nicely chilled...
Baseball players at least get to unpack for a three-day series, but the pro-basketball life constitutes vaudeville, endless one-night stands, night after night; catching the last flight at midnight or the first one in the morning; playing 100 games a year-too many for the body, the soul and even the customers. "Sometimes," says Grevey, "your legs start to ache real bad just walking down the steps to go to the game, and you realize they aren't even injured, they're just tired. Then, on the court, you feel like you're playing...
...expenses are for souvenirs and the cheap, duty-free drinks. Says Sam Revel, owner of a Beverly Hills travel agency: "First of all, people want to relax. They don't want to hurry around airports, worry about what kind of hotels they'll be in, pack and unpack. On a cruise, everything...
...Manhattan, Woodbury worked for newspapers in Denver and Grand Junction, Colo., in the 1960s. Earlier this year TIME marked the Mountain West's growing importance by reopening its Denver news bureau after a 13-year hiatus, and by installing Woodbury as chief. He barely had a chance to unpack his skis before this week's story propelled him on a two-week, 2,500-mile sweep across seven states from the Canadian border to New Mexico. "I had been warned that the region would be unrecognizable to me," he says. "Things like the brown pollution cloud over Denver...
...told a reporter that he was voting for Regan. Said Weisen: "Carter ignored us for 3½ years, and now he comes around asking for our votes. Well, he's not getting them." Nearby was a carton of Carter posters that the workers had never bothered to unpack. Weisen sneered: "We'll turn them over to use them as place mats at our next beer bash...