Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodman found a hotel where he slept for an hour and a half. He returned to the American delegation, found everyone still asleep, took his bag and made his way to the nearest elevated railway station...
Communists who carelessly carry their Party membership cards stuffed into billfolds or handbags have frequently got themselves into trouble and long angered Party bosses. German Communist leaders finally had a bright idea: they directed that in future, Party membership cards must be carried in a specially designed bag made of transparent plastic, hung from the neck on a silk cord. A female comrade, reported by the Communist press to have protested that the new order seemed directed only at men, was assured that Communist women should also carry the bag, suspended between their breasts. Said Berlin Communist headquarters: "The highest...
...acknowledged selling him the grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...
...height of the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir last winter, Meirowsky arrived at Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...
Teacher Gabriel's bag is full of such tricks. To a moppet who finally manages to play a piece correctly, Gabriel will award a slip of paper with the announcement: "I confer on you the degree of Doctor of the D Major Scale." A bored learner may be allowed to peck out scales with his nose, or play a piece blindfolded, or standing on one leg. Gabriel students also play musical Truth or Consequences, in which one penalty is standing on the head to sing God Bless America. Gabriel sometimes reverses the lesson, plays student to the pupil...