Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrators of the city's colleges knew all this, and perhaps never even slightly feared that Gates' oratorical bag of tricks would snatch up any innocent collegiate minds. But they also knew New York, and knew how the city's Opinion gets quickly up on its haunches when the word "Communist" appears, especially when a real live Red steps inside a city college's gates, paid for by city taxes. Yielding to the incipient pressure and potential indignation, the Administrative Council, whose salary is also paid by city taxes, saw no choice but to prohibit the Gates lecture...
...Perle's arch-rival in the hostessing game, elegantly gowned and bejeweled Gwen Cafritz. Perle wheeled, looked wildly around for an escape route just as an alert photographer recorded this historic moment of truth (see cut) for posterity. Gwen nervously shifted her white mink stole, swung her evening bag against an onlooker. The bag flew open and coins, handkerchief and vanity poured to the floor. "Isn't this what would happen when I come to a Perle Mesta party?" Gwen remarked, scooping up the debris. But then Perle, good sport that she is, turned back, shook hands with...
...handed. In Lancashire a flea is a flenn or a fleck, but the people of north Lincolnshire and north Yorkshire still say lops-a leftover from the Danish invasions of the 9th century. Such a word as udder can assume a bewildering number of forms-ewer, elder, dug or bag...
...Beirut's plush American quarter the unshaven man in the dirty grey sweater attracted no attention. Ignored by the gossiping Lebanese police on the corner, he waited patiently until a grey Opel sedan got almost abreast of him in the narrow street. Then, calmly setting his shopping bag on the sidewalk, he pulled out a Beretta submachine gun and opened fire. Inside the car 34-year-old Colonel Ghassan Jedid Defense Commissar of Syria's outlawed Socialist Nationalist Party and onetime commandant of the Syrian military academy, slumped over dead...
...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...