Word: pickpocket
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...Journal pointed out that the Government goes a step farther than the pickpocket. "We are told that the good effects of all this are enhanced if the Government, unlike our friend on the subway, can spend more than it takes, or at least seem to. Big deficits, especially those arising from tax cuts, allow more dollars to be put into some people's pockets without appearing to take quite so much out of other people's pockets." While this is illusory, "there's no denying it's less painful to steal a bit from everybody...
Concluded the Journal: "On the subway we had a blissful ignorance of being plucked until, much later in the day, we found ourselves less well off than we thought. And even now we think there must be many a helpful pickpocket who wishes that policemen understood the ethics of the new economics...
...unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else had found Floyd's hideaway. Rummaging around, he found a pilfered wallet left behind by a pickpocket. Clambering down from the unlit alcove, the champ brushed off the soot and sighed. "Now I can get it off my mind...
Crime like a little old lady pickpocket, seldom seems a menace at Harvard. The University police are perennially plagued with student riots and hoaxes, but in 326 years, not been a single reported murder undergraduate by another...
...first Boston International Film Festival was held last night with an awards ceremony at the Loeb Drama Center. Citations were presented to Macario, Good Soldier Schwelk, Sand Castle, and The Pickpocket...