Word: bagfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prayer unanswered, Simon last week packed a bag and lit out for the New York opening of California Suite. Said he: "To tell the truth, I'm really looking forward to it. I need a fix." To tell the truth, so does Broadway...
...Hugo Muller. After he got off the plane, she separated Muller from the nine other passengers who had arrived in Tel Aviv from Vienna aboard Austrian Airlines Flight 712 and led him to a screened-off room for a baggage check. When Muller obeyed her request and opened the bag he was carrying, explosives inside it killed them both and wounded ten other people. After making inquiries in Europe, Israeli authorities concluded that "Muller" was a courier for Palestinian guerrillas. In Beirut, George Hasbash's militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the bombing...
...premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...touched old gentleman carefully picking his way through the crowd--a dignified scramble over fat knees and waving programs--making his way to a lazy bleacher perch, pulling out his pencil, squinting from beneath his cap. Haunting the parks from San Diego to Fenway, living out of a duffel bag, sadly crusading for the survival of true baseball fanaticism in a cruel, uncaring world...
...student porter is guilty of being ungrateful. He had hoped for the mail truck job, riding the range with Joe Perlatonda, leaping at high speed from a silver chariot with canvas bags slung over his shoulder, delivering mail all over campus. The romance of speed and the far-flung foreign niches of Harvard fades away and all he sees is a Hefty trash bag...