Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark Lane raised the question of Carlino's impartiality after Warren C. Adams, a prospective investor, quoted Lancer officials as saying they had Carlino "in our hip pocket." Adams testified to this under oath, and Carlino admitted that his law firm received $5,000 from Lancer while he personally received other fees in his role as director. But, the accused Speaker claimed, though he was still director of the construction firm when he guided the bill past the Assembly, he had already given notice of his intention to resign. By phone. "I neglected to send that letter," Carlino sighed...
...high plateau province of Pleiku. Generally they agree that conditions are better than in their old homes. But a local supervisor says bluntly, "Their rice and cash allotments are being stolen by the regional authorities. The wood they cut is confiscated by officials who sell it and pocket the money. The fertilizer they are supposed to get goes to the black market...
...cooked up a $10 million business for Hefner-a few intellectual tidbits in a meaty casserole of bare bunnies-went sour. Last month, with circulation running closer to 250,000 (mainly newsstand) than the hoped for 1,000,000, and with Hefner at least $1,500,000 out of pocket, S.B.I. switched from a fortnightly to a monthly, and pruned its staff...
...solution was embezzlement. In 1768, when William was 19, Father Hickey discovered that his son had boodled ?500 from the firm. After that, William behaved well for a time, but soon let himself be led back to Wetherby's, where false friends doped him and picked his pocket of nearly ?70 in company funds. The next morning, "I passed some minutes in a state little short of despair; I rung a bell for the purpose of ascertaining where I had got to, and other particulars. No one answered until at last a yawning man made his appearance, immediately exclaiming...
...heavy industry, De Laurentiis has been pampered by the government with tax concessions and subsidies. His new studios have four immense sound stages, three of which can be combined, by sliding steel doors, into a giant indoor county, complete with pocket oceans for underwater scenes. A sort of Cecil B. DeMilione, he recently completed Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation of The Bible...