Word: bagfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banquet, the Harvard team presented Hewett with a new bag of chocolate cookies and the "You can have your cookies and eat it, too" award...
...downstairs and watch television and talk to their folks and girlfriends who come to see them pretty often, two or three times a week. If I was in jail I'd be in great shape," said the pudgy O'Keefe. "These guys got the speed bag, punching bag, weights and the basketball court. With all that free time I'd do some running and work out on the bags and the weights...
...room" at my grade school, where the tables you ate lunch on were folded into the wall to clear the floor for basketball games, plays and PTA meetings. A ping pong table and a wooden desk sat on the raised stage at one end of the room. A speed bag, punching bag and pool table filled up the other end. The 50 feet between was marked off for playing basketball...
...irregular and worn, many rusted and cracked. Again, mostly women were sitting behind the wares. The women sell, the men haul. Seated behind a small collection of knives made of rough-hewn steel and handles whittled from eucalyptus branches, a woman chatted away with a friend who carried a bag, on her way to buy some rice or vegetables for lunch. As she talked the seated woman smoothed out the shiny folds of her yellow skirt, long and puffy in the traditional manner of the Aymara. In contrast to the men, very few of the women have changed to modern...
Here was where people came to buy their coca. Two-foot high transparent bags appeared green with the small leaves that the Bolivian Indians chew as part of a tradition dating back millenia. On the altiplano, where the nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour after hour, help to drive out the cold and to kill one's appetite. These Aymara no longer live on the altiplano, but it is still cold at night and food is far from plentiful. Shipped in hugh quantities from the jungle, the coca sells for incredibly cheap prices...