Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Merilee got up and dressed in pants and a shirt smelling of Sam's sweat, in her own headed bag found only shreds and seeds and three big Australian pennies, weighty ones...
...Three hours and $72.47 spent at the Alpha Beta. 2 cases of dog food, a 75 pound sack of Keeble she had struggled out to Sam's TR herself. Inorganic vegetables, spices, a 5 pound bag of peanuts. More, much more. She knew the checkout boy-a novice at the Tribal hunting grounds, or from a novena at Alyosha's-and he had asked her, "Hey lovely one, you sure when you come down you're going to want all this stuff...
Stafford's day begins at 5 a.m. He must be at the Washington Bridge post office, twelve minutes away by subway, at 6. First he sorts, or "boxes up," the mail for his route. Regulations say that the bag he carries can weigh a maximum of 35 Ibs.; usually it is a little lighter. His 18-block trek takes him to 1,100 mailboxes. He enjoys the job, and knows many of the residents he serves. "I like to talk to people," he says. "It's nice in the summertime." For lunch, he gets 30 minutes. His normal...
...stop we got out and joined hundreds of smiling, energetic people of all ages and both sexes who were filling black wax-paper bags full of dirt and placing a coffee seedling in each bag for later germination. It was a hot day but lots of people were talking animatedly and singing. They seemed to see it as a weekly outing and only a portion of the work that thousands of others in the canefields and in factories were also involved in. There are no financial rewards for this kind of labor, just a colorful pin to wear...
...thing with the fuzz. Last October, Brooklyn patrolmen arrived to help him out after someone creased his hip with a bullet and ended up arresting him for possessing pot. This time Manhattan cops just wanted to see his driver's license. As Trumpeter Miles Davis rummaged through a bag looking for the license, out fell a pair of brass knuckles. Though it is a felony to carry knucks in New York, the judge let Davis off with a $100 fine for driving without a license...