footlocker
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Urrea’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin de Urrea, had served in World War II as a volunteer with the American Red Cross and still possessed her Army-issued footlocker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
Lombardi seeks to sue the Department of Corrections for negligence after he says his leg was cut on the sharp edge of a footlocker in his cell.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
When she was a child, Tammone found Glass’ footlocker from Hollywood and remembered analyzing her mother’s old greasepaint, the sticky makeup oily to the touch.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
He left Vietnam, placed the trophies in a footlocker, and later in a wooden box, and put them away.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2015
A brother we called Brew sat on a footlocker next to Lieutenant Carroll.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
“I was basically told that everything I believed was rubbish, and that I should be ripping up bits of cardboard and locking myself in footlockers overnight and bending every rule.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
They sat on banquettes around the walls and used footlockers beneath them.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020
The boys’ personal belongings were stored in plastic bins under the beds, like footlockers in the Army.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2018
Men lived out of footlockers which they bought themselves, wore civilian shoes, frequently ate food prepared by ill-trained cooks, supervised by ill-trained mess sergeants.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of my first recollections of you was at a Company inspection in which all the footlockers were open for inspection.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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