Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They hurled them toward the Capitol over the six-foot high restraining fence just built at the foot of the statue of John Marshall. Over a bushel of medals-a body bag's worth-were collected. The vets discarded helmets, dress uniforms, ribbons, discharge papers, and such awards as the bronze star, silver star and purple heart...
...asked that the package, the contents of which they did not disclose, be given to Walter Jackson Bate, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, renowned expert on Keats, and a good friend of the Heimerts. When Bate arrived at Eliot House Tuesday night for open house he opened the bag and burst out laughing, according to Heimert...
While one man distracted her, Roscoe said, the other two removed the 18-inch, 50-pound bust from its pedestal and placed it in a green book bag. Before she realized what had happened, he added, the men had left. In place of the bust, the secretary discovered a large potato, decorated to look like a man, sitting on top of a black...
...only child. In a milieu where family solidarity was a virtue (and a power source) prized even above gang loyalty, Daley thus suffered a certain limitation-until he married into the numerous clan of Eleanor Guilfoyle. As an officeholder, he consolidated his family position by exploiting the rich grab bag of political patronage on behalf of the Guilfoyles. As Royko observes, "Eleanor's parents might well have said that they did not lose a daughter, they gained an employment agency...
When his name emerged from the coordinator's list of assignments, he swung his sleeping bag over his shoulder, ambled toward the car and introduced himself, "I'm Dennis O'Brien, and this is my old lady Monica. Where can I stow the gear...