Word: bags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two types of greenhorns. There's the person who brings the Boy Scout summer bag and squash gloves--a strictly one night proposition. And then there is the hiker with the five pairs of down booties, and a full wardrobe of down pants. You know, that's the one flaunting the Kelty rademark like it's a Yves St. Laurent label--a walking camping supermarket...
...unless you are novice number two, and you are not with an experienced party, your first subzero night might be spent scurrying from tent to tent in your skivies, looking for a samaritan to share a sleeping bag with...
...pains of inflation have so infuriated consumers as the ache in their sweet tooth caused by the astounding rise in sugar prices. Since January, the store price of a 5-lb. bag of sugar has rocketed from 900 to $3.45; wholesale sugar prices have been raised seven times in the past six weeks. Consumers have tried to strike back by organizing sporadic regional boycotts, and last week Carol Tucker Foreman, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, which claims 30 million members, announced plans for a nationwide boycott from Dec. 1 to 10. Even some grocery chains are urging...
...years, when he drove downtown to his office on the 29th floor of the First National Bank in Dallas, he parked his car several blocks away to save a 500 parking fee, and carried his lunch in a brown paper bag...
...midnight and lasted five hours, Taylor was on the heart-lung machine, which maintains the patient's circulation, allowing his own heart to be stopped during the delicate operation. Only then did Barnard discover how desperate his condition had been: "His left ventricle was nothing but a bag of fibrous tissue." Barnard cut away 45% of this diseased heart muscle, partly to make room for the implant. He placed the donor heart piggyback on Taylor's own, left side to left side, and cut silver-dollar-size holes in the left atrium (upper chamber) of each. Then...