Word: bags
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...June 1968 to as low as $1.29 early last month. Victims of the fall include Wall Street metals speculators, small-time investors who had bought silver as a hedge against inflation, silver miners in the U.S. and Canada, and even coin collectors. The price of a bag containing $1,000 in silver coins has dropped from $1,400 in October...
...ugly fight followed. In classrooms, the conflict between elitist teachers and egalitarian students is more subtle. When one young English instructor offered to share his knowledge of a Walt Whitman first edition with his class, a black student answered: "Look, man, you're into this first-edition bag, and that's all right with me, understand. But man, I think it's a crock...
...spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents, cipher books. In 1953 one of his hollow nickels containing microfilm found its way into the hands of a newsboy, who gave the coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted only that he had entered the U.S. illegally, but he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years. Four years later he was exchanged for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Though most spies retire...
...Senate pool and avoiding late night conviviality. In other days he drank a Scotch or two a week, but not now. "I'm in training," he smiles. So, traveling first class on each campaign flight, he stows the two allotted shot bottles of liquor in his flight bag. Already this year he has logged 160,000 miles to visit 31 states, and the collection of unopened bottles is up to well over 100. "Norwegian frugality," he explains. "That's the way we'd run the country...
Dressing women has long been the bag of Couturier Yves St. Laurent. Nobody knows better than he the way to a lady's checkbook. The way to a man's, though, seems to have been too much of a problem for the flame-haired designer. To plug his new line of male fragrances, St. Laurent simply took all his clothes off and collapsed in a full-page advertising spread in the French edition of Vogue. The Paris Couturiers' Association unofficially declared itself "astonished." Vogue admitted it was "a little surprised." Said Yves, "I wanted shock...