Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some social critics are worried that a democratization of computers, making them as common as television sets are today, may eventually cause human intellectual powers to atrophy. Even now, students equipped with pocket calculators have been relieved of having to do their figuring on paper; will they eventually forget how to do it, just as urban man has lost so many crafts of survival? Possibly. But the steam engine did not destroy men's muscles, and the typewriter has not ruined the ability to write longhand...
Irion's attitude toward the game reflects his advice. He travels with the team on the road, paying the fares out of his own pocket, and provides constant support from the sidelines. Irion recalls, "I had to tell the guys to keep faith because at the beginning of the season things weren't going that well. I was elected co-captain because of the things I could do on the basketball court so at first when I couldn't play I felt like an outsider looking in. Everybody's tried to help and make me feel at home...
...covert action is undertaken. I'm not the guy who should push covert action. I'm not a policymaker, but if someone who is a policymaker asks, "Turner, what can you do for us in the way of covert action here?" I like to reach in my pocket and have a plan there, ready. A couple of times it [a plan] has been accepted. But on the whole I have not found it a very attractive option...
Kodak lawyers contended that the company had reached its pre-eminent position in the industry through skill, foresight and creative research. Far from being an invulnerable monopoly, lawyers claimed, Kodak was losing market share in pocket cameras, photographic paper and photo-finishing products. Said the lawyers: "In cameras, the competition is simply amazing...
...long, taken from the patient's own ribs. This causes no disability. While an assistant closes the chest wound, Brent carves and molds the cartilage into an approximation of the ultimate desired shape for the new ear. Then he makes a pocket from the skin where the ear should be and slips the cartilage into...