Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacks on Yarborough, Bush recalls rumors that the Senator got $50,000 in a brown paper bag from Billie Sol Estes during the 1960 presidential campaign. Yarborough denies the charge, although he has admitted getting some $7,000 in campaign contributions from Estes over a three-year period, long before Estes' shenanigans came to light. But Bush tells his audiences: "The question is not whether Yarborough got $50,000 or $5,000 or whatever he has admitted getting from Estes, but do you want a man in the U.S. Senate who was involved with Billie Sol Estes...
...Marina told the Commission: "He tried to talk to me, but I would not answer him and he was very upset." Oswald left the house for nearly an hour?during which time he was presumably out in the garage, disassembling his rifle and placing it in the brown paper bag he had brought with him to carry "curtain rods" back to his boardinghouse. Next morning he left for his job in Dallas, the "curtain rod" bag in hand...
After Kennedy's assassination, police found a paper bag on the floor near the window from which the fatal shots were fired. It had been fashioned from brown wrapping paper and brown paper tape, identified by Commission experts as having come from the School Book Depository shipping department. Its size was perfect for accommodating Oswald's rifle, if the weapon were disassembled. Oswald's palmprint and a fingerprint were on the bag. Investigators also turned up several green fibers and a single brown one in the bag, tested them and testified to the Commission that they matched fibers...
...told the curtain-rod story to Frazier to explain both the return to Irving on a Thursday and the obvious bulk of the package which he intended to bring to work the next day; 2) took paper and tape from the wrapping bench of the Depository and fashioned a bag large enough to carry the disassembled rifle; 3) removed the rifle from the blanket in the Paine garage on Thursday evening; 4) carried the rifle into the Depository building, concealed in the bag; and 5) left the bag alongside the window from which the shots were fired...
...over, particularly in the South, where they have been usurped by high-schoolers, and Bermuda shorts are slowly giving way to full-length slacks or, better still, skirts. Back in the swing, after a decade of use only by Boy Scouts and photographers, is the shoulder-strap bag. "Jiffy" coats-halfway between a coat and a jacket in length -are as popular as Beatles; favorite fabrics are stretchable wools, hottest pattern is houndstooth checks. "The coffee-shop look is out," says a Philadelphia fashion coordinator. "It's been replaced by the clean look." Boston and New York, headquarters...