Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shirt stretched across his chest, and a fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...
...WORLD; HOLD HIGH THE GREAT RED BANNER OF MAO TSE-TUNG THOUGHT. We passed the old racecourse, which right after World War II had been converted into a nine-hole golf course. It was then customary for each player to use two Chinese caddies, one to carry the bag and one to watch the ball. Now the golf course had been converted into the People's Park, its club house serving as the public library...
President Bok reached into his bag of tricks this week and pulled out two mildly surprising appointments as Masters for Adams and Dunster House...
...bounce a ball on her block. Yet she showed a certain genius as she regularly feigned senility in department stores, knocking down piles of goods in her awkwardness-and slipping items slickly under her clothes in the confusion. Author Curtin also appreciates the defiant spirit of Letty the Bag Lady, who carried all her possessions everywhere in two sacks, terrified that they might otherwise be stolen. Letty knew that "this face of mine pulls and tugs in all different directions like an old sweater sagging." But she scoffed at those who stared. "Stupid bastards, I say, someday...
...housing chief Andrew Kerr, the city, acting on Government promises of aid, had begun construction of 6,000 units. But because no written agreement had been signed, no federal funds will now be available, and the future of the housing is uncertain. "The Government left us holding the bag," Kerr asserts. The Chicago Housing Authority had applications pending with the Government for 8,500 units; now all work from planning to demolition has stopped. Plans for public-housing projects also have been interrupted in Milwaukee and Baltimore, and will be resumed only in the unlikely event that local officials...