Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bailey Everett White, plumber's helper in the town of Hobbs, N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...
...Sunday practice, he ordered an extra workout on the day before Christmas. While California took the day off, Michigan went grimly to work on a set of new plays. Oosterbaan had decided that California's powerhouse ground game would have to be met with a brand-new bag of tricks, but after the special drill, Oosterbaan was still "thoroughly discontented" with his team's progress...
...professor, ominous little bag in hand, scurries for hiding through dark, deserted streets in which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
This one led to a bright room with coat racks down the middle and a private leaning against them. "Take off everything but shoes, socks, and shorts," said the private. "Place all your valuables in the small cloth bag." He pointed to a cardboard carton of small cloth bags. "Make sure you do not misplace either the papers or your valuables." We undressed, picked up our bags, and lined up to get weighed...
...best of the new drawings are the eight personifications of the Houses. For obvious reasons, Dudley is a bushy-haired lad with a dubious expression and a book-bag suspended from his neck. For reasons obvious only to Braaten, Leverett has two heads, both fairly dull and sleepy looking, and one with a pimple on the end of its nose...