Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point appointment. The Congressman had no West Point vacancies at the time, gave Radford a chance to go to Annapolis instead. As a midshipman, "Raddie" was a better-than-average student, graduated at 20 (class of '16), and was described in the Academy yearbook, Lucky Bag, as a "pink-cheeked Apollo...
...home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life." Her office appointments are lined up on a conveyor-belt schedule. Her double-handled calfskin bag, which she carries everywhere, is a special efficiency container which she designed for her business papers, her purse, and a Book of Common Prayer...
...verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that he had got off lightly. If he and Juliet had been charged with their actual crime-adultery-both would have been tied into a jute bag, set afire, tossed to the ground from the highest tower in Khobar and then left...
...undercover agent-met in the agent's car, where the agent bought the dope with marked money. Suddenly other agents sprang from hiding and pulled the peddler from the car (see cut). The agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned by the family of California's Senator William F. Knowland, spread its exclusive pictures across Page One and eight columns inside. The arrested man turned out to be Roy Mac Arthur, 31, a pilot for Transocean Airlines, who has been flying a C-54 between California...
...Equitable Credit Corporation's only woman auto finance manager, and for three years she has run its Savannah office as well as any man. But 15 months ago, a loud, cigar-chewing, Savannah car-rental operator, R. J. Bedgood, skipped town, leaving Hazel and her office holding the bag for $20,000 in mortgages on missing automobiles. After a year of investigating, Hazel developed one slim lead: Bedgood had once been a construction worker and might be working somewhere in the construction business...