Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Made by Aqua Buoy of West Germany, the wristband contains a carbon-dioxide cartridge and a tightly folded nylon bag and 16-in. cord. When someone wearing it runs into trouble, he can flick a lever on the wristband, triggering the cartridge to inflate the pillow. Priced at $30, the 4-oz. device is selling briskly in sporting-goods stores...
...Supreme Court opens the household trash bag to warrantless police searches. -- And the Justices give doctors the antitrust jitters...
...common knowledge that plastic garbage bags left on or at the side of a public street are readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops and other members of the public," declared Justice Byron White for the majority. Requiring police to seek warrants before searching such refuse would therefore be inappropriate, he wrote. Rubbish, responded Dissenters William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who predicted that "members of our society will be shocked" by the court's ruling. "Scrutiny of another's trash is contrary to commonly accepted notions of civilized behavior," they maintained. "A single bag of trash testifies eloquently...
...take it and pack it all in his regulation-sized duffle bag. A duffle bag marked up with Syracuse destination stickers and the NCAA Quarterfinals...
...routine bit of island hopping. The Aloha Airlines jet was cruising at 24,000 ft., just 25 miles southeast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a whoosh like a paper bag popping -- a gaping hole blew open in the fuselage directly above the first- class compartment. "Everything was flying around -- books, papers, money," said Stanford Samson, a passenger seated nearby. "A stewardess was in the aisle being pulled toward the hole. Everybody who could grabbed her and held onto her." Farther back...