Word: bookbag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids have only six textbooks, each of a different kind. No longer do teachers have to outline a lesson on chalkboard, make children copy it and chant it back. To stop any kid on the streets is to find one or two of the new texts in his bookbag...
...Radcliffe cheerleader. Now that mays sound strange, because the two are obviously mutually exclusive. A Radcliffe girl spends all her time studying, occasionally stopping to push a wisp of long dirty hair out of her eyes or to pull another book from her handy green bookbag. But she doesn't run around in a short red pleated skirt in the freezing cold for three and a half hours, waving pompoms, shaking her hips, and wheeling carts.(carting wheels...
Gone is the traditional 'Cliffie with "her stringy dark hair, long, pale, intense face and black wool stockings; her green bookbag, stapled at birth to her right shoulder." In her place has emerged, "with new plumage and pinfeathers, a species that would no doubt have startled her ancestors...