Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miniature, transistorized Geiger counter with works slightly less complicated than the average pocket radio, the personal monitor has no switch; it is on all the time. Its tiny mercury battery is good for a month of steady operation. Now properly equipped workers will no longer have to take time off to read a meter or check a counter. Their personal monitor will give them the word. "It is intended to tell lab personnel whenever there has been a change of radiation level," says an Oak Ridge scientist. The workers put it more succinctly: "It tells us when to run like...
...more virtuous. I think to be good it's not sufficient just not to commit adultery. I cried when Tom Dooley died because I'll never do anything good and hard like that." But. in the words of one of her brothers. Jean Kerr is no "beads-in-the-pocket type of Catholic." When Jean heard that the Vatican was going to blacklist Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, legend has it that she rushed out and bought a copy to read it before the ban became official...
Revived with Brandy. During his lifetime, he organized and largely supported six orchestras, and used his personal fortune so lavishly to bring new operatic productions before British audiences that he was once said to be out-of-pocket by a million pounds ("When I heard it," said Sir Thomas, "I fainted and had to be revived with brandy"). Almost singlehanded, he forced British orchestras away from their slavish loyalty to the Germanic tradition (Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner), won recognition for native composers (Williams, Delius), and introduced such composers as Dvorak, Smetana and Strauss to British concert halls. Perhaps no other conductor...
...formula is almost completely predictable. If a woman in a Brecht play tells a man that she loves him, the odds are overwhelming that within minutes she will turn whore or he pimp; if someone puts money in his pocket, probably stolen, someone else will steal it; if a character speaks of honor, loyalty, progress-and particularly religion-chances are that he is merely masking a corrupt and greedy deal. This kind of unrelieved, often naive cynicism, heavily tinged with Marxism, has defeated many another writer. But at his best Brecht has risen above it and fashioned a rich, varied...
...team hasn't been the same since we were on it," said Boris fondly gazing at the Novogoro seal on his blazer pocket...