Word: packs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wire. He made no effort to grab an early lead: "When I saw everyone else trying to get to the front, I took back. I must have been seven or eight lengths behind the leaders at one time." A quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled...
Leader of the yelping pack is Christopher's own wife, Sylvia, a beautiful, well-bred trollop who is driven sadistically insane by her husband's absolute incorruptibility. Wherever Christopher shows up-in government offices, in country retreats, even in the mud of France-he finds Sylvia there, turning men's minds against him. As a woman, Sylvia is probably the worst bitch in 20th Century fiction, and scarcely credible. But as a symbol of merciless revolution against old, established order she is the core of Ford's social tragedy...
...laced their machine guns into tight fire-patterns, and methodically proceeded to lay some of the best minefields and barbed wire yet seen in Korea. Once dug in, the British began sending out patrols to make contact with the enemy. The patrols were cool, businesslike and aggressive as a pack of foxhounds...
...colored Arizona three-year-old showed such persistent friendliness that compassionate Hunter Hibben, who found himself alone in a canyon with his intended victim, hesitated to kill it. "We stood an eternity there, the bear and I ... The main atmosphere seemed to be one of embarrassment." Hearing the dog pack yelping at its trail, the bear calmly wrestled its way up a tree. "Should I shoot the bear? . . . Certainly this was no sporting thing. I would let Giles finish [him] off." Then suddenly the bear changed its mind and started coming down again...
Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...