Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shine. In Anson County, N.C., Police Chief Fred Hyatt stopped a man with a satchel on his back, asked to see the contents, was refused, then, feeling certain that he had caught a bootlegger, sent to town for a search warrant, opened the satchel, found half a gallon of milk...
...boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work out his time on the ball field. For every game Satch wins for the Miami Marlins, said Judge Charles Snowden, he will...
Five gets you ten that Packard's satchel-mouthed "Hawk" hits the street under the name of "The Toad...
...piano with both hands, like a starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted down to mere noise as he ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric guitar, bass and drums came down hard on each syllable. Six extra loudspeakers hyped...
...Satchel of Scorpions. Ever since Britain gave up Jordan last year, Hussein's neighbors have crowded close in the name of Arab "unity"-to help themselves. At the time of last fall's invasion of Egypt, Syrian, Iraqi and Saudi Arabian troops moved into Jordan to "protect" it; the Syrians and Saudis are still there...