Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane landed at Harry Hart's ranch. About 40 ranchers flew off to a Venezuelan army training base, where they got automatic rifles, bazookas and instruction in how to use them. Just after New Year, the plane flew the rebels back to the Harts' domain, and the pocket revolution...
...never made it. Two Charlotte County deputies stalked him until finally he paused to rest directly in front of them. "We turned the light on him, and there he was, crouched down on a log, just sitting there," said Deputy Milton Buffington. They found $17,-000 in his pocket...
Thomas was born and grew up in Marion, Ohio, and earned pocket money delivering the Marion Star, published by Warren Gamaliel Harding. After Princeton, he did social work at Manhattan's Spring Street Presbyterian Church and Settlement House, traveled around the world, took a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary, and then became pastor of an East Harlem church. His work in city slums led him to socialism, and he became a pacifist during World War I, thus alienating many of his patriotic friends and earning enduring hostility from others. He entered politics in 1924 as the Socialist...
...course, consumers had plenty of pocket money. Often during the 1960s, they have confounded economic forecasters by spending more lavishly than the experts had expected. This year, they went on something of a spree, correctly sensing that the prices of almost all goods and services were bound to rise. Such expectations become powerful economic forces, creating an inflationary psychology that is now firmly embedded in the thinking of businessmen, labor leaders and investors. Even after the tax increase, consumers rushed to buy practically everything. Their appetite for the well-styled 1969 autos was particularly keen; sales this year will reach...
...Gore of New York City, all of these criminals are difficult to spot. "No one looks like a pickpocket or a shoplifter," says he. "There are no 'types.' " Gore advises that the best way for men to protect their money is to carry it in a shirt pocket or the inside pocket of a jacket; women should bury their wallets deep in their handbags after every purchase...