Word: bag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keep the nets ready; this is the year we bag Princeton's Tigers...
...Kirby, a courthouse librarian in Orlando, hauls weighty law books all day long; not once during working hours, she complains, has a man ever opened a door for her, much less offered to cart the books. "But let me go out at night with nothing heavier than an evening bag," she goes on, "and three men will open the door for me. There's something about that I don't quite understand...
...RAIN: cold, clammy, pervading rain that leaked through the tent and soaked the sleeping bag. The sky bode more ill than good. There was no thunder though, which left me no excuses. Moreover, I had specifically asked 'Ranger Bob' the night before what the streams would be like, reminding him I would be making the hike alone. Stoned, but still the authority, he said "no problem...
...stood staring until the two men caught up. Then they stood and stared. I talked to them. They had no food, no dry clothes, no tent and only wet down sleeping bags which sap heat from cold bodies. They were defenseless, and worse, they were succumbing. I didn't think I could cross the stream alone even though it looked as though Adrian had. I wondered if I shouldn't set up the tent, get in the sleeping bag and bite through the plastic bag at my belt to get crackers and chocolate and try to save...
...heard for a fact they were dead, which is odd, since I have as clear a picture of them standing there, witless, as I do of anything else I've ever seen. I even tried in detached curiosity to imagine how they were found--frozen, in one sleeping bag--and even those thoughts didn't affect me the way I would have expected them...