Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a warm day. In many U.S. cities, market cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks and slacks (candy and cigarettes). In a Chicago suburb, aware of a National Food Store security guard on her trail, one Spartan shopper waddled two blocks down the street...
Pity for Weeding. Annapolisman Rickover had still more in his sea bag, and he unloaded it later in an address on getting an honorary degree of doctor of engineering at Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute. The blast: "We waste the best years of our children in the name of democracy and of the sacred comprehensive school. The careful manner with which European authorities find the proper schooling for each child's gifts is criticized here as cruel and undemocratic. Weeding out by examinations arouses pity and horror...
...much trouble or expense if it helps a promising young player. Despite his shyness, he is stubborn, determined, and has a strong sense of human dignity-including his own. "I will not be pushed about," he once announced politely but inflexibly during a contract negotiation, "like a bag...
...Wind Bag? Bartley would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
Competence Is No Excuse. In Kent County, Md., Goose Hunter Charles L. Ivens had one bird already in his bag, fired at another, brought down two geese at once, was arrested and fined in a federal court for exceeding the day's statutory limit...