Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left for small change. Acorss the highway from Haymarket is the Italian...
...Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least $8 million in cash from her bank-meaning that some $3 million was missing. Some burglars, the cops concluded...
...economy was creating an average of 125,000 new jobs a month, while in the first four months of this year the rate has speeded up to 325,000. Said Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings: "The rest of the year is in the bag...
...million of them children. There was no consensus among Democrats on the Hill to cut back existing programs or give up new ones. "I can read this Congress," he told Carter. "If there is no move to serve those who need compassion, we'll run into a bag of troubles." Carter replied that he may have emphasized restraint too much, but he refused to budge on the balanced budget...
...rare savvy and persistence to conceive an idea, guide it through the corporate mazes and oversee its embodiment in steel. He helped design the controversial Corvair, sold GM on the merits of the pollution-cutting catalytic converter and the recently abandoned rotary engine, and supported development of the air-bag safety system. His motto at the corporation was "Kick the hell out of the status quo." Cole retired from GM in 1974 and had taken over Checker Motors, intending to produce a more efficient taxi. "Once you have it in your blood," he often said, "you're always looking...