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Word: bags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic difference between the two was summed up by a reporter for the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal, a paper which, incidentally, supported Nixon in 1968. Yaffe, he said, is a candidate with "a facile grasp of a bag full of issues he intends to use all to her disadvantage." Yaffe, he said, "may be her toughest opponent." As a result of Yaffe's efforts, "it will be a lively and intelligent campaign based on issues...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Four Likely Candidates | 10/13/1970 | See Source »

...requires no special plumbing or wiring and runs on standard household current. Garbage is loaded into a bag in the 17-in.-high waste drawer at the bottom of the 15-in.-wide appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appliances: Wasting Away | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...identification, they were signed up for the whole program on the spot. Another presented herself at a local office and though not asked for identification, volunteered to present a rent receipt. Whereupon she left the office, only to return with a bogus receipt written on a scrap of paper bag by Mrs. Whitner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teaching How to Cheat | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...involve a single visit to the thrift shop or the Salvation Army. Now a savvy decorator can pick up a headboard, radio, picture frame, Tiffany lamp shade, stained-glass window and even a bubble-gum machine, all for less than $30-and carry them home in a shopping bag. That's because People Paper is instant make-believe furniture, designed to be pasted onto walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Putting On a Room | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Starving Radcliffe girls who have been waiting for Harvard Houses to open for lunch may have to wait a long time and without the traditional bag lunches that carried them through other lean years...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: COHPuts Off Approval for Interhouse | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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