Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back side, holding out for birdies on 12, 14, 16, and 17. On the 389-yard 12th, he needed only a sand wedge into the green after catching his drive flush. On the par-three 16th, Fitzgibbons sent his tee shot skittering just past the flagstick on the pocket handkerchief of a green and proceeded to roll in the comeback putt...
Carr, the mine foreman and leader of the scabs, pistol in pocket, leaning over the hood of his pick-up and talking low: "Hoffa's a communist...Teamsters, they're all communists...AFL-CIO's all communist...what's gonna happen to the country when the unions get in?" Here is the leader of the striking miners, pleading with the men to continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when...
...execution methods is exemplified by February's killing of Mafia Consigliere Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, Bomp walked from his San Diego home to a nearby public telephone booth, which he used as an office in order to avoid wiretaps. In his pocket was a notebook containing coded balance sheets of loan-shark usury payments and lists of coded phone numbers. The numbers turned out to be those of other public telephones scattered through California and Nevada. The phones constitute a West Coast Mafia hot-line system...
...blew all your pocket change on cocoa butter, jai-lai, and trans-Florida pizza runs, you'll have to settle for Cheap Trills, a violin, guitar, mandolin and bass quartet, hits the Winthrop JCR Saturday at 8:30 p.m. For $1.50 you can find out if Winthrop hits back...
...Meanwhile, Sony is pushing Betamax hard and hopes to have a million units in U.S. homes by decade's end. Zenith will begin selling Sony systems under its own label next fall, and RCA will be marketing a Matsushita-built system by then too. If color TVs and pocket calculators are valid precedents, the price of video-tape units should fall fast. Even if Universal and Disney win a final verdict in, say, 1980, there may be so many machines and tapes in American living rooms that enforcing the decision would be a practical impossibility...