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This one led to a bright room with coat racks down the middle and a private leaning against them. "Take off everything but shoes, socks, and shorts," said the private. "Place all your valuables in the small cloth bag." He pointed to a cardboard carton of small cloth bags. "Make sure you do not misplace either the papers or your valuables." We undressed, picked up our bags, and lined up to get weighed...
...kind of thing you probably remembered about College. He weighed the book in his hand; it was small and handy, printed on exceptionally light paper. It wouldn't really take up too much space. Vag held the book a minute more, and then let it slip back into the carton...
...they landed scores of Italians gathered around them chattering and laughing. Suddenly Palmira, curious to know what the fuss was about, walked through the dusk to the edge of the crowd. As she stood there, an American sailor "with a hat like a saucepan" thrust some chocolate and a carton of cigarettes into her hands. Before she could say anything he was gone...
Three Bundles. For almost an hour Pickering and Detroit police searched the three-story building, found nothing suspicious. But at 11:30 that night, a night watchman spotted a rain-soaked cardboard carton outside an unused basement entrance. It was wrapped in red and green Christmas paper and tied with a piece of cheap blue ribbon. Inside were 39 sticks of dynamite, carefully packed and taped into three bundles. One of the two fuses had burned out within an inch of the detonator, apparently snuffed out by the black friction tape which bound it too tightly; the other had fizzled...
...national soap manufacturers promised that its Quincy warehouse would give the stuff away by the carton to every Harvard student who splits his shower bath with a dry New York coed...