Word: tote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lugged them past customs at London Airport. Some such illegal dodge was necessary to get around England's strict six-month waiting period for animal immigrants, which recently forced Richard and Liz Burton to charter a yacht to house their animals during a visit. The less expensive tote bag was Gayle's own idea. So was her final coup-getting a British European Airways steward to carry the bag for her as she left London for Majorca...
Blow Up. One leader in the new field is Manhattan's Mass Art, Inc., a quartet of young naturalized American designers from France, India, Ecuador and Cuba. Mass Art started out last year offering inflatable vinyl pillows for $1. After expanding into tote bags and bubble earrings, it is now making an $80 chair and a $20 table. The chair consists simply of four clear vinyl pillows nesting in a spare aluminum frame, and anybody who sits in one looks like a master of levitation...
McDonnell has also devised a 27-lb. antitank missile that a single foot soldier can tote and launch, is confident enough of a big Army order that he has bought a 247-acre site in Florida for a factory. In another diversification, the company has created thriving automation centers in Houston, Denver, St. Louis and Columbia, Mo. Operating $40 million worth of computers, the centers keep records for 22 St. Louis banks, handle warehousing and order control for a shoe manufacturer, compute tax bills for Colorado counties, help devise game strategy for the Denver Broncos' professional football team...
...Blazing Sky came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager of 70?, her ladyship collected $7,804.34, the tote jackpot, by backing the winners in all six races...
...measure may be only in the interest of public safety. Olive Green, the Cuban army magazine, has complained that Cubans tote around lethal automatic weapons "as if they were adornments," and there has been an appalling number of cases of civilians shooting one another with military firearms. Radio Havana's explanation was some what contradictory: 1) the guns were in bad shape anyway, and 2) the "struggle against our enemies requires a rigorous control of all combat weapons...