Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rummage-sale workers can have a "good laugh" when a stolen alarm clock in a shopping bag goes off. "Some of the customers are real sharpies who can steal pants from under coats, stuff costume jewelry into their sleeves and pockets, and exchange their own shoes and purses at the rummage counters with a magician's skill...
...reference to your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...
...police headquarters, the assassin calmly identified himself as Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, told detectives his only regret was failing to kill Communist Sanzo Nosaka and Japan Teachers' Union Chairman Takeshi Kobayashi as well as Asanuma. He had planned to bag all three. The sword, he explained, was a wakizashi, the kind worn by samurai until 1876, when the government forbade people to carry them. He had found it only the week before in the bottom of his father's closet...
...Broadway theater, sultry Singer Lena Home dropped in on opening night to catch her daughter, Gail Jones, 22, in a musical titled Valmouth and having to do with the antics of a mixed bag of aristocrats, plebeians and Far Eastern visitors at an English seaside resort. The critics thought the show "tired" and "a mess," but one allowed that Gail might ride more handsomely in another vehicle. Tersely observed the New York Times: "Gail may turn out to be a singer...
...prove as important as the transistor, which, like the maser, is a solid-state device.* Existing masers generate or amplify radio microwaves with extreme efficiency, and they have revolutionized many branches of science, including accurate timekeeping and radio astronomy. But as soon as radio masers were in the bag, scientists began to dream about optical (visible light) masers...