Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy-class air tickets-and pay later if necessary. One major evacuation point was Beirut, where hundreds of Americans straggled in from Syria to join 3,000 Lebanon-based U.S. civilians, half of whom clustered on the campus of the American University. Each carried only one 44-Ib. bag, plus two blankets and 24 hours' worth of food. Many women showed up carrying small dogs in large handbags. With the city in blackout, there was a moment of near panic when saboteurs blew up a Shell Oil storage tank several miles away. In the guttering glare of flames that...
...Mohamad Ramez Salem, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Chicago, has just reported what he considers a near-sure hiccup cure. Standard remedies, which range from breathing into a paper bag to injection of muscle-calming atropine, can be effective, but not for all victims. Moreover, some have bad side effects. The new method has so far proved almost universally successful...
First there is the search for a level patch of ground, then the epic struggle to pitch the tent. After that, the traditional U.S. camper eats out of cans, bathes in an icy stream, and strangles in his clammy sleeping bag-all the while fending off the onslaughts of hungry bears and raccoons and innumerable species of creepy crawly insects...
Died. Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
...order to keep on driving, many such motorists have been forced to buy more costly insurance from so-called "high-risk" companies. Since 1960, more than 75 high-risk firms have gone into bankruptcy, leaving 300,000 claimants holding the bag for at least $100 million-and giving the whole industry a bad name. In California, where 950-ODD companies now write auto-insurance policies, Deputy Insurance Commissioner Harry Miller says: "If we could just cut that to 900, and pick the 50 we'd get rid of, we could cut out 95% of our complaints...