Word: pocketbook
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...general audience still draws an average of 10,000 people to the regular Wednesday and occasional Saturday sessions. Hence a battle for position goes on. And it is difficult to appreciate the glory of Michelangelo and Bernini when some child is whacking your shins, a woman has her pocketbook jammed into your floating rib and half a dozen nuns are giving you the old high-low so the mother superior can better enjoy this supreme moment...
...economics at the ballot box and vote other imperatives instead. Their sense of financial freedom further weakened the traditional New Deal coalition, assisting Richard Nixon into the White House. Now that situation seems to be changing. Higher prices, rising unemployment, scarce credit, an erratic stock market have restored the pocketbook as a prime issue in this election year...
...civilian economy. We should break the control of the unions over the skilled trades. It's ridiculous that in a city like New York you have so much difficulty getting a plumber. Why couldn't the plumbers union let some blacks in? It's not going to hurt their pocketbook...
...pounds. Our dimensions complemented one another, but the problem was that she had just come from Filene's and was laden with purchases. On my left, the side bar was pressing in on me, and on the right, the woman's bright green and blue, sharp-corned pocketbook was sticking into...
...talk about freedom," he lamented, "but we mean it for the pocketbook, not for the groin...