Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boost in purchase taxes and duties on almost everything a Briton buys, from cigarettes and wine to cars and television sets. Lloyd estimated that the higher prices would give Britons some $588 million less pocket money to spend, presumably cut down on imports, currently running way ahead of exports. In a nation where the average weekly wage is $45, a packet of cigarettes will now cost...
...stoic, unshaven pair took their pinup places in foxholes, tents and barracks all over Europe. The G.I. could richly appreciate the saw-toothed irony of Mauldin's cartoons. In one, a dog-tired and shambling Joe guards the three equally exhausted Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup de grâce to a Jeep with a broken axle. Relaxed before battle, Willie...
...Italian Piave on July 8, 1918. At Fossalta, Hemingway, who had switched from ambulance driving to join the Italian infantry, was so badly wounded in a burst of shellfire that he felt life slip from his body, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner," and then return. He emerged with 237 bits of shrapnel (by his own count), an aluminum kneecap, and two Italian decorations. It was at Fossalta that he picked up a fear of his own fear and the lifelong need to test his courage...
...live in an unpretentious suburban home that he bought 20 years ago, takes little part in Detroit's posh country-club life. In off-bargaining season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers' Carey) and "Dave" (the Steelworkers' McDonald), he frequently puts in phone calls to them to settle a point...
...steady stream of delegations got the green light to line up before the President and listen to his plans for Brazil. One group of farm leaders stood waiting in his office for what seemed an eternity while Quadros finished scribbling some message. Quadros' old gold Patek Philippe pocket watch ticked on the desk, beige curtains closed out the view, the ever-present portrait of Abraham Lincoln stared down from the wall. "Then," says one of the farmers, "he looked up and started talking without greeting us or asking us to sit down. We stood silently for 48 minutes while...