1.   A. You wrote recently that you bought one of those plastic cord winders, the type that takes the place of hand winding, which gets everything tangled up.

2.   Patel employs five men who unpack and display candy, straighten magazines and cut the plastic cords on newspaper bundles that arrive every few hours, day and night.

3.   Some players, apparently fearful of forgetting their Wampum Club cards, inserted them in the machine with plastic cords affixed to their sweaters, like umbilical cords.

4.   The cohort quickly bound the workers with plastic cords.

5.   They shuffle off the plane in leg irons, their hands bound with plastic cords, their heads hooded with empty sandbags.