Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin, a feckless Southerner who holds the depressed view that the U.S. is a giant pool table and he its eight ball: the Great Pool Player Upstairs puts him now in the side pocket of Louisiana, now in the corner pocket of Texas. While he wanders, Alma sits patiently home, waiting...
...them at all." On the other hand, Albert is tough enough to demand votes when the outcome is crucial. "Where we've had the tough votes, we try to count them as closely as we can -and have a few spare votes in our pocket," he says. "If a fellow keeps begging off, we tell him that it's his turn to take the heat the next time...
Next to Yap. Though all change is abhorrent to the English, small change in Britain is impossibly hard on tourists, pocket linings and computers, whose manufacturers keep their most advanced models out of the country rather than adapt them to the currency.* The British have seven separate coins, ranging from the halfpenny (pronounced haypenny) through the half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which...
Click. The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops near the center spot. Big as a water tower but light on his feet, with a diamond ring on a pudgy finger, the fat man moves around the table. For 31 consecutive hours, with an almost incredible repertoire of masse shots, bank shots, gather shots, and combinations, with just enough English and the right amount of draw, he has been defending his reputation as the best there is. He chalks up and shoots again. Click. The 15 ball slams into the corner...
...Gleason out cold in a 100-point game. "I don't know who the hell I'm playin', but he sure does all right under the name he's usin'," said Jackie Gleason-who had been hustled by Willie Mosconi, the world's pocket-billiard champion (and, later on, technical adviser to The Hustler...