Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, or those of them whose political activity increased markedly after the President was stricken, may now lose interest in the forthcoming campaign on the theory that Mr. Eisenhower has victory in the bag. We hope this attitude will not prevail. We were not among those who believed that Republican prospects depended entirely upon Mr. Eisenhower's decision. The Republican Party is not a one-man party, and this is not a one-party country. A great many things can happen between now and November...
Unmanned space flight is almost in the bag. Rockets have already risen to the edge of space, and no one in the rocket business doubts that unmanned satellites will soon be revolving on orbits around the earth. Manned space flight is much more difficult because of the vulnerability of human crews. Last week a symposium at the University of California discussed some of the problems...
...Bag of Resources...
Leach concluded the letter with a challenge to the President. As the need for a defense training course became more apparent, he related, the universities had an obligation to readjust quickly to meet the need. "And no place in the country has a better bag of resources" for doing...
...hunting wagon. Accompanied by eight pointers, the two men rolled through the piney woods to the hunting area, where the dogs soon flushed two coveys of quail. Ike fired at both-and missed. (Next day the President was sighted in; he shot a full day's bag of twelve birds, grinning: "It's a funny thing . . . All the birds started to cooperate...