Word: beanbag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President into words that soar. "Government is words," says Noonan. "Thoughts are reduced to paper for speeches which become policy. Poetry has everything to do with speeches -- cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep, a knowledge that words are magic, that words like children have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart...
...focus of this obsession is humble in its size: it is merely a small, round beanbag resembling a miniature baseball in design. To devotees of the sport of Hackey Sack, however, the bag's significance is quite large...
Carol soon took on an informal role in creating the sense of family. She often arranged the birthday parties, and it was she and Mary who kept their door open late and the beanbag chairs available. It seemed entirely appropriate when May rolled around and the dorm sent her a mother's day card...
...relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game is the beanbag toss, in which gleeful children win pieces of candy by pelting a plywood figure of Uncle...
...Disney studios, struck some observers as a rather poultry imitation of the U.S. national bird. Hope did not duck the issue. "He has a good makeup man," the comedian said, gamely, and confessed his own regret at not participating in the Olympics. Clucked Hope: "Too bad gin rummy and beanbag don't qualify...