In her brown-and-green briefcase, Ms. Evans carries two spare buttons for her green uniform, and a pin to attach them.
Battalions of humorless little meddlers with briefcases and green eye shades now swarm over company books with that festive compulsiveness so beloved of socialists, checking how many hours employees work and generally taking the fun out of life.
In the air was a sense of arrival, the triumphant serenity of a society whose values and canons, based on station wagons, arcadian green lawns, fathers with briefcases, and mothers in pearls, had become, by some divine dispensation, immortal.
He keeps little black books filled with the names and numbers of people Mr. Kerry meets; dials many of his telephone calls; helps select his neckties and opening one-liners; collects gifts from well-wishers; transports his leather briefcase, three hunter-green duffels and two navy suit bags; and, at night, often stays by his side until he is ready to go to sleep.
For two consecutive elections, he toted his glowing briefcase and waved his green lantern to give voters the audacity to hope.
His right reached for Mr. Kerry's briefcase and one of those green duffels.
She examined an East German canvas briefcase, then settled on a metallic-green West German bag that had done duty as a gas-mask carrier.
Ambrose left, apparently wanting nothing to do with Rollins, then, as Seth opened the briefcase up, he got covered in exploding green slime.
He had not removed his green parka — the rooms were chilly — and he carried a briefcase, which contained artists' renderings of what the Svalbard vault will look like.
White Lies do the standard indie-band-awkwardly-marooned-on-a-dance-album turn, and Cee-Lo Green manages to distinguish himself by yodelling on the chorus of Brixton Briefcase, an oddly old-fashioned, Delbert Wilkinsish choice of song title.
His crossing kit, a plastic box crammed with gadgets and a couple of green peppers whose seeds he intends to extract and study, serves as his briefcase.
