Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
Just how deep Chester Bowles will be able to dig in his bag of ideas in his new job will depend on Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk. It could be very deep, for he will be, after all, No. 2 in the State Department...
...flashing badges and search warrants. In Moscow the family of one Nina Ivanovna was brusquely told that Nina had been arrested at her job as manager of a state-owned secondhand store. The callers demanded all of Nina's valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were...
...trial in a Moscow district court, Voskonian and his gang got help of a sort from those they had robbed. Nina Ivanovna and her mother insisted that the stolen bag contained only 100,000 rubles, not 250,000. Furrier Aleksandrov estimated his loss at a mere 45,000 rubles and, at first, even denied owning a diamond watch shown him for identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly...
There are four main species: hard-looking City People, College Students, Way-Out-of-Towners, and You. Within those classifications are countless inevitables: the girl with the white orchid pinned to her evening bag (first nightclub? first anniversary?); the short-haired sophomores being smoked by pipes; the woman with the leopard blouse and the tumbling, bright blonde hair; battered men with battered credit cards, wearing off-white ties. The expense-account mood is almost never really drunken and almost never really blithe. Nobody seems to feel thoroughly comfortable...