Word: duffel
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...also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled? One army officer found a bottle of shampoo to be suspicious. Another officer confiscated an assortment of old notes, then asked me to number each page with a forwarding address. That was so I could not later claim anything had been stolen, he explained...
...after giving Dartmouth a big thank you tonight before the game, the Crimson stuffs the Big Green into its duffel bags and sends them back to Hanover with a loss, the opening round of the ECAC playoffs will be right back at Bright Center Tuesday night, with Harvard hosting either Boston College or St. Lawrence...
...show belongs to Simone Signoret. After 40 years in movies, Signoret has the sturdy, pouched, life-lined charm of an old duffel bag. She is a marvelous behavioral actress. Smiles and tears are easy enough, but no one is better than Signoret at sitting still, daring life to try and impress her. Luckily for her, in France actors are not asked to stay svelte and sexy into senility. The family doctor looked at Signoret and encouraged her to put on weight, go gray, show her age, be herself-and still be a star. At 61, she has earned her Letter...
...introduced. Poland's President Henryk Jablonski, a silver-haired figure in a black overcoat: a smattering of applause. Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow wearing crimson biretta and robes: hearty applause. Then Union Leader Lech Walesa, the improbable hero of last summer's strikes, bundled in his customary duffel coat: tumultuous applause. After a minute of silence, the city's church bells began to peal, and ship sirens wailed from the port, a keening cry that sent shivers through the crowd. The names of those who died at Gdansk and Gdynia in 1970 were read aloud, with...
...thousands of people heeded his advice. "It was awful," said Mrs. Clare Wright, 30, who took her daughter Amy, then 3, to a refugee center set up in a hockey arena in nearby Hershey. Mrs. Wright carried along some clean clothes and a couple of blankets stuffed into a duffel bag, and left behind on the kitchen table a note to let her truckdriver husband know where to find her. She recalled: "We spent three days at that place and two weeks with relatives before we decided that it was safe to return. I'm still not sure that...