Word: duffel
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...through most of the night on a train westbound from Chicago, Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, n, and ten other lads played cards (David insisted that it was poker), resolutely fought off sleep. Arriving in Denver in the charge of a Secret Serviceman, David shouldered his heavy duffel bag, visited his ailing great-grandmother Elivera Doud, then rejoined his pals for a ride to Skyline Ranch, a boys' camp where he will rough it for five weeks...
...expatriates of the '20s clung to Paris as long as their money-or their parents' money-held out against the Depression. Today, in duffel coats and beards, a new generation of expatriates throngs Le Select and Les Deux Magots. But a sizable number of the U.S. exiles, and the most stable group among them, are seldom seen in the Left Bank cafes. They are Negro artists and writers...
Code Lights & Pingpong. Inside the dormitory the new arrivals found their quarters (two men to a room). As they picked their way down the line of duffel bags, foot lockers, skis, banjos, rifles and packs, the "doolies,"* i.e., plebes, had to halt before passing an upperclassman to ask "By your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions...
...bulky, parka-clad man paused in the hatch of the transport plane and reached back for the duffel bags handed up by a friend. In them were some of his most prized possessions: dozens of tape recordings of South Pacific music, Beethoven sonatas, harp solos. The big man waved goodbye. "See you in 1958," said Paul Siple, 47, a geographer and polar explorer from Arlington, Va. Then he flew off from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound in the antarctic for a 14-month stay at the most isolated community on earth...
...Olympic stadium. Somber Swiss in grey lounge suits snapped to attention. Apple-cheeked Dutchmen bobbed orange tassels on their caps. Prim Japanese in blue blazers stood stiffly with blue-belted Russians and a U.S. contingent that sported red, Russian-style fur hats over their snappy white duffel coats. Uniformed Turks were a solid blob of black...