Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a car, it costs quite a chunk of change to get to the ski country. If you do have a car, chances are, you might find yourself stranded along about midnight somewhere in the New Hampshire wilderness. So with an eye to the pocketbook and comfort of the ski enthusiast, the Boston and Maine Railroad has invented the Snotrain, and the Inter-Collegiate Outing Clubs Association, the Snobus...
Then Senator Bob Taft took to the radio and unlimbered the Republican artillery. With a cold eye on the nation's pocketbook, he riffled through the President's list of proposed legislation. Said Bob Taft: "The Federal Government comes forward again as Santa Claus himself." The whole list of requests, Taft estimated, would run to around $10 billion a year in new expenses. Asked Taft: "Where is this money coming from...
...force in French politics had found a new way of expressing its will; the middle class had a new grip on its pocketbook...
...time three-quarters of the student body availed itself of the facilities of professional tutoring. There was no pretense that the "schools" were merely giving occasional assistance to conscientious students having trouble with a particularly hard course. They offered a complete "Harvard" education at a price to fit every pocketbook...
...first three years in the pro loop, Jacunski had it rough. He played second string behind the incomparable Don Hutson. "The little exercise kept me in good shape," says Harry, "but it wasn't exactly healthy for the pocketbook...