Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt last week let a wishful cat out of a hypothetical bag. Said the President casually, in answer to a question at his press conference: he was not excited about tires; things would work out; already under study were two or three tire substitutes which did not require rubber; if they would just permit a man to drive 30 miles an hour, he could get to work and back...
...date, the Commandos have made countless, unannounced raids on coastal France, Norway, The Netherlands, even on Italy and Africa. Often their bag is no more than a few Nazi soldiers and officers, isolated damage to small Nazi posts-and the incalculable effects upon Nazi morale of swift, unannounced, murderous visits after dark. In their six publicized raids (two on Norway's Lofotens, others on Boulogne, St. Nazaire, Vagsoy), the total damage done could not compare with that achieved by the R.A.F.'s 1,000-plane raid on the Rhineland last week...
...Boston public conscience border on the inscrutable. Some of the stunts that the city fathers and their representatives have pulled in the past, such as banning issues of Esquire and tearing pages out of Life Magazine, have proven merely ludicrous, but the latest ruling from the municipal bag of tricks cannot be passed off with a tolerant shrug. Last Monday the City Council, by unanimous vote, moved that "the sale, display, or distribution on the streets of the City of Boston of all newspapers published out of the state of Massachusetts be prohibited" unless the news dealer or individual newsboy...
...wrinkled little face stared up from a shapeless bag of black hair. Acid burns had disfigured the baby gorilla's face-its look was malevolent. But the baby, named Buddy, was sick...
...coffee bag holds...