Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claims about the American standard of living "so unreal as to cause an observer to dismiss the entire exhibit as false propaganda." For example: a television program showing "a woman coming from the supermarket with a bag of groceries, getting into her private plane and returning by air to her suburban home...
...Bag. He had the votes, but the Socialists had other resources. On the first day they kept the secretary-general of the lower house, without whose presence no business can take place, holed up in his office for 11½ hours. When the secretary finally got to the chamber, only four minutes of the session were left-Next day the Socialists filibustered so successfully agains: the election of the committee chairmen-u procedure that usually takes 90 minutes-that by the stroke of midnight, only seven men had been named. On the third day the Socialists contested the election...
...days when the English milord traveled through remote and dangerous foreign lands with nothing but a valet, a revolver and a universally acceptable bag of sovereigns, are, alas (and partly by our own folly), long gone," sighed the British weekly, Time & Tide, last week...
Coming around the far turn, Calumet's great colt Tim Tam was making his move. The Belmont Stakes, brightest jewel in the Triple Crown of the turf, seemed safely in the bag. Bets on the odds-on favorite seemed safely in the bank...
...brown eyes, makes the most of her charm and social position in covering her financial beat. At a dinner party last July, she heard businessmen moaning about cutbacks in reinvestment plans and the chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down in a single day, she wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence...