Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modest Prince Rainier was quick to disclaim any credit for the bag, which he said had been ready and waiting for him on a pier in Conakry: he had merely transported them, not captured them. But he had many another adventurous tale to tell-of spearfishing in the shark-infested waters off Dakar, of a near-drowning as he shot underwater pictures during a raging Atlantic storm, of a 1,200-mile trek through French Guinea and of the difficulties involved in helping his Negro valet purchase a wife in a native village (price: 200,000 francs...
...Collapse physically. Practice this several times a day. Let go every muscle in the body. Conceive of yourself as a jellyfish, getting your body into complete looseness. Form a mental picture of a huge burlap bag of potatoes. Then mentally cut the bag, allowing the potatoes to roll out. Think of yourself as the bag. What is more relaxed than an empty burlap bag...
...Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats and drafty duckblinds, as hunters tried every trick in the book to bring home the legal bag limit...
...Aside from their hunters' ineptness and their own evasive skill, migrating waterfowl have another sturdy protector: the game laws of almost every country that they pass over. Unlike the fisherman, the duck hunter cannot throw back the one he takes just for kicks; carefully calculated hunting seasons and bag limits guard the birds from overenthusiastic sportsmen...
...more than twelve years; nowadays that would cost $13,152. By intensive treatment, the average stay has already been cut to less than ten years. And at the new Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, where patients play shuffleboard or work off their aggressive impulses on a punching bag (which has to be replaced once a month), the average patient's stay is only 85 days and costs about $1,275. The explanation: Carter Hospital gets cases promptly after diagnosis and treats them promptly; untreated, they would wind up, years later, in the hopeless wards...