Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hustler (20th Century-Fox), commercially speaking, is a long-shot money ball that will probably hit the public's pocket like a rocket and rack up an impressive score. Artistically speaking, it is an amusingly mangled myth, an epos in a pool hall, a ceremony of chivalric valor on the Field of the Cloth of Green...
...encouraging people to take loans, but sheet inadequacy of funds. Harvard more than doubled aid in the last decade, but rising costs meant that it could only help about 25 per cent more people, and that the average scholarship holder was forced to supply $700 more from his own pocket. In the same decade, the average income of scholarship applicants almost doubled. Harvard is inexorably becoming an upper-middle class college, and because it cannot hope to maintain the rate of increase in aid that it reached in the last decade, the situation is going to get worse with increasing...
...their eleventh-hour effort to halt the merger of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Hanover Bank, the trustbusters said that they would persist in the courts-which means that the case may drag on for months after all the banks' change has been put in one pocket. And when Ford announced that it planned to absorb noncompetitive Philco (see Corporations), the snap reaction among many businessmen was: "What will Bobby Kennedy...
...that he is as good a performer-but he is the better looking of the two, and he knows it. He has a firm but nonchalant acting style ("Method? No, I just act") that belies his vanity. During the shooting of Splendor in the Grass, he whipped out a pocket comb every time the camera made a pass at him, irritating Director Kazan to the flash point...
...love, loneliness, birth, death. The music is so rhythmically complex that it is too sophisticated for all but the best of modern guitarists. The lyrics evoke the same ingenuous moods as the music: "I love you so much that I would like to carry you away hidden in my pocket like a morsel of bread." "The day you were born the sun put on clean clothes, there was celebrating in Heaven, and even Jesus Christ danced...