Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel and aluminum roll-up ladder, 2) a self-shaking mop, 3) a pocket signaler that pages the wearer when he is being telephoned. 4) an electrowriting machine that uses telephone wires to transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating...
...battered hat. "I say. my man," he called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket, and without so much as a thank-you said, "I am Winslow Homer...
Nixon checked into Walter Reed's presidential suite (carefully paying the $34-a-day rental out of his own pocket) for a fortnight of treatment. His left leg was put in traction to keep the knee immobilized, and he was soon responding to injections of penicillin and erythromycin...
...Greensboro-High Point airport, 500 Carolinians rushed up to Nixon's plane to greet him. He was well prepared: besieged for autographs, he reached into his pocket for cards he had machine signed earlier. At Greensboro's War Memorial Auditorium, which can be used for either summer ice skating or speech making, the G.O.P. had decided on "An Evening of Skating and Coffee with Dick and Pat," on the ground that with the rink open, fewer seats would have to be filled. But a crowd of 9,000 jammed the hall and spilled into the aisles. Another...
...Grand Prix drivers. Appalled by the dearth of first-class Italian drivers, Count Giovanni Lurani, an oldtime competitor himself, got together with drivers and automakers to devise a small sandlot version of the bellowing, big-engined (2,500 cc.) Ferraris and Maseratis-just as the familiar midget racers are pocket-sized editions of the Indianapolis "big cars." To make it safe, the Formula Junior got its dinky engine. To make it cheap, the class was restricted to using parts from standard touring sports cars. But while the Formula Junior is indeed cheaper ($4,000 v. $15,000) and slower...