Word: duffel
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...moreover, displayed a talent for close-order drill that should turn the Radio City Rockettes green, plus body control that enabled them to shift speeds with the smoothness of a car accelerating in fluid drive. Among the highlights: a dance competition in which the men, in soft boots and duffel-baggy pants, remained squatting while they whirled, pivoted, bounced on knees and toes, while, with arms folded, they placidly pumped their legs in eye-blurring, right-angle kicks...
...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...
...Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as fashionable as sinning after lunch. Two recent arrivals resound to the phoot-phoot of scooters, but they nonetheless belong to the most ancienne of vagues-bad films. Cheaters is a solemn exercise in which Jacques Charrier, a pretty young man married to Brigitte Bardot, and some friends behave with what they...
...cigar-chomping kings of a somewhat mysterious industry gathered in the New York Trade Show Building last week, unrolled their duffel bags, and pulled out what was possibly the most overwhelming assortment of white elephants ever assembled under one roof. There were old ammunition cans and "slightly used" jungle shorts, cordless electric blankets and rubber ripple mats, as well as powder horns from Germany and inflatable snakes from Japan. The occasion: the 15th Trade Show of the Institute of Surplus Dealers...
...soon as I get on the bus." Two or three minutes later, the young man boarded No. 8 bus, a cream and blue double-decker carrying at least 50 people. He was about 5 ft. 9 in., was in his early twenties, and was wearing a brown, hip-length duffel coat. Dazed, he said nothing when the conductor asked him his destination, silently handed over sixpence and climbed to the upper deck. At one point he was seen talking to two other men. Somewhere in the slummy Ladyswood district, all three got off. Bus No. 8 went...