Word: duffel
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...nearly automatic. You're ready for Friday dinner, the date is due in an hour, and some clown comes busting through the door with his kick-ass boots. He says he's a friend of your roommate, throws his duffel ("You don't mind if I toss my duffel up here") on the desk, then pukes...
Into a green duffel bag and a green foot locker that bore the stenciled words, "Lance Cpl. C. J. Whitman," he stuffed provisions to sustain him during a long siege and to cover every contingency: Spam, Planters peanuts, fruit cocktail, sandwiches and boxes of raisins, jerricans containing water and gasoline, rope, binoculars, canteens, transistor radio, toilet paper, and, in a bizarre allegiance to the cult of cleanliness, a plastic bottle of Mennen spray deodorant. He also stowed away a private armory that seemed sufficient to hold off an army: machete, Bowie knife, hatchet, a 6-mm. Remington bolt-action rifle...
...same date, French officers in NATO's two military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau must pack their duffel bags and go home to strictly French military duties...
...almost everybody smuggles, from big-time professionals to the lowly fisherman who returns with a case or two of cigarettes along with his corvina. Last month customs men in Buenos Aires decided to have a look at are turning Argentine courier's suspiciously bulky duffel bag, all duly marked and sealed as a "diplomatic pouch." It contained 124 blue mink pelts. And then there is the army of "ant smugglers," the ordinary travelers who sneak everything from gems to Japanese cameras across the porous borders in their bulging luggage...
...Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...