Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to go there alone quite a bit," he recalls. "During the day I'd just walk for hours gazing at the country; then at night. I'd lie in my sleeping bag wondering about things. It was so quiet the only things I'd hear were me and the crickets--God, was that great...
...penned some last-minute thoughts for his plenipotentiary for peace. "Do what is right for an honorable peace, without regard to the election," he wrote. A settlement might be "a slight plus for the election," Nixon mused, but more likely it would prove to be "basically a mixed bag for a variety of reasons...
...rest of the measures represent a grab-bag of concerns, large and small. Some are old standbys: fluoridation programs, school bonds, lottery and bingo proposals, and wetter or drier liquor laws. Others are new either in scope or in concept. One example is California's incredibly stiff anti-obscenity proposition (TIME, Oct 23). Among the more interesting...
...handiwork. In general, he reports in the current Harvard Educational Review, he was pleased by what he found in ghetto storefront schools, where the chief problem was constant staff turnover. All too often, Kozol writes, the teachers are young whites who spend a year in "the race and conscience bag," then discover new slogans and bywords and leave for "a new dedication." Nevertheless, the ghetto schools' education programs, by virtue of their locations, have inherently "a strong ingredient of direct, unfalsified political consciousness," which Kozol considers at the heart of any serious free school...
Most restaurateurs suffer silently under a gourmand's assault, but they all frown on one particular variant, the Takeout Artist. At the Stockholm, for example, Manager White caught one soberly dressed couple making off with 4 lbs. of shrimp in a concealed plastic bag after they had finished dining. When White intercepted them, both complained angrily-and the woman dumped the smuggled shrimp on the floor at his feet. A pair of California counterculturists astounded the manager of Shakey's Pizza Parlor with the huge amounts of food they were putting away-until he found an excuse...