Word: pocketbook
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...snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle, a worker in the New Orleans sewerage and water commission, guided Yolanda to safety while Daisey Gabrielle, swinging a big pocketbook, cleared a path through the crowd. "No mob's going to tell me what to do," said she. "If you give in to this mob, you have to give in to all of them...
...whoever you are, wherever you are." If the "you" is fissionable, Sylvia splits it: "you, the small business man" and "you, the consumer," to quote two salutations joined in one recent Porter column. "You" also is highly possessive: it is "your recession," "your cost of living," "your pocketbook," and, of course, "your dollar...
Brightening the Dull. Through the densest economic thicket Sylvia blazes a simple trail. "You wouldn't by any chance have $460 tucked away in your pocketbook or wallet or lying around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...
...lawsuits from every angle. Many general practitioners no longer will dispense telephone advice or permit prescription refills. Suit-shy surgeons, says a San Francisco doctor, have become "frankly reluctant to try radical things-which might do a patient some good." Doctors dislike these dodges, but they feel in real pocketbook danger. A joke going the rounds among physicians has St. Peter greet a man at the gates of heaven saying: "You weren't due here until 1965. Go back and sue your doctor for malpractice...
Replotted Line. In court Sullivan's lawyer, Robert E. Steiner, loudly demanded vengeance. "Newspapers have got to tell the truth," he told the jury. "One way to get their attention and the attention of everybody else who publishes newspapers is to hit them in the pocketbook...