Word: duffel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that, New York detectives went to Berkowitz's apartment house, and they found his car parked handily in front. Peering inside, they spied a rifle butt protruding from an Army duffel bag in the back seat and a note on the front seat. It bore the highly distinctive hand printing of the .44-cal. killer's letters to police and Breslin. A dozen officers staked out the car and the building, while a search warrant was sought...
Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...
...slightly touched old gentleman carefully picking his way through the crowd--a dignified scramble over fat knees and waving programs--making his way to a lazy bleacher perch, pulling out his pencil, squinting from beneath his cap. Haunting the parks from San Diego to Fenway, living out of a duffel bag, sadly crusading for the survival of true baseball fanaticism in a cruel, uncaring world...
Perhaps because he has had so much experience packing duffel bags, Bunting gets a great deal into fewer than 250 pages. He has an old-fashioned social novelist's knack of sketching characters and setting scenes. But he also puts a fresh wrinkle in the old tale of a cold sophisticate getting burned by the rube. Yankee versions customarily make the rube goodhearted. But Adams and Giles both represent a failure of what Americans like to think of as an egalitarian society. Adams' understated, institutionalized arrogance and Giles' blustering, rude arrogance are not different in substance. Only...
After the birth of their son Michael in 1962, Louise had to play mother, but William carried on much as before. He buttered up his brother Richard, who had got hold of his own duffel bag containing $1.1 million. Then William conned Richard into believing that he was his partner in a drug-stealing scheme. He also got him to make his older brother the beneficiary of a new will. In 1965 Richard was found dead in a parked car with a bullet hole behind his right...