Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were some 350 curious citizens and a phalanx of photographers and reporters. When Christine appeared, a woman in the crowd turned to her little girl and said: "Look, Ruthie. She used to be a man" wrote the News with high disdain: "Ruthie stared popeyed. All she needed was a bag of peanuts and a bottle of soda...
...Schweppshire Lad. By 1940 Hooper had succeeded Woolton as managing director of Lewis's, Ltd., Woolton's chain of department stores in northern England. In 1942 Hooper quit. "It was very rejuvenating, I thought, to chuck it all in the bag at 50 and start something new," Hooper explains. The something new was to mix in Tory politics (at which he still worked closely with Woolton). He became public-relations director for the Ministry of Works, and later boss of Britain's veterans' resettlement program. He started his own firm of business consultants and, with Julian...
...most tempting plums in the Republican election year grab-bag was tax reduction. Eisenhower promised progressive cuts in income taxes, natural death of the excess profits tax, and a balanced budget to boot. The money for this financial revamping was to come mainly from a reduction in the out-sized military budget...
Comments were solicited by the letter which appeared in the February 10 Crime concerning the basketball situation here at Harvard. We are tired of being the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball punching-bag, but would like to take issue with several of the author's suggestions...
Agudelo and Graduate Nurse Maritza Gonzalez, 23, had set up three inoculation stations around the village, each manned by a vaccinator-a girl who had taken six months of public-health training. Each vaccinator unpacked an alcohol burner from her black bag, sterilized a batch of needles and syringes, and went to work...