Word: pouch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organizations joined forces this year to put out a credit card-sized paper book, featuring a card pouch, a directory of University phone numbers, referrals to counseling services and dining services information...
...Maybe I just imagined it. Still, it could happen--it's getting that tense out there. These cell-phone people are so out of control that I worry about their safety--or would, if I weren't fantasizing about swatting them savagely about the head, shoulders and utility pouch with their obnoxious and nap-destroying phones. There's a guy serving a year in jail in England for refusing to shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard...
...scandal! But that's not all. According to DeVore, these appendices of such rare and delicate quality are conveyed by diplomatic pouch to the U.S. and distributed through the Washington-Harvard network to only eight select Faculty members. "As you may imagine, the number of such appendices annually available to each of us is not generous," said DeVore, "But alas, I find my quota sufficient for my needs...
What was taken from the pouch, which is a little smaller than an attache case, is still the subject of speculation because officials are not sure what it contained to begin with. Normally such a pouch is stuffed with what is known in national-security parlance as Sensitive Compartmented Information, which is intended for only the most senior officials. It typically might include a highly classified briefing book from the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau, analyzing developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained...
...figure out the pouch's contents, the FBI is engaged in the laborious task of reconstructing the "chain of possession" surrounding the documents: who had access to them, when and for how long? Investigators told TIME they have not formally excluded other possibilities--that, for example, a secret-documents clerk innocently botched the document logs or misplaced the material and is now afraid to admit it. Or perhaps the papers were hidden by a disgruntled foreign-service officer. The FBI is moving aggressively on all fronts. Until the facts show otherwise, agents must assume the worst--that the material...