Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dowling is not an extraordinary passer," Georges adds. "His strong point is scrambling," he says, "and if we can make him throw from the pocket like the average quarterback, the results of his passing will be the same as with the average quarterback...
...Thank heaven for TIME. I no longer need any excuse for my irrational and inexcusable behavior when it comes to flying. I will just pull your story "Flying Scared" [Nov. 8] out of my pocket along with my handkerchief...
...South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket and taking a dollar out of another...
...husband," and publicly Vietnamese women are usually models of submissiveness. At home, though, the Vietnamese wife is known as the "minister of the interior," while her husband is the "foreign minister." In practice, that means that he brings his paychecks home to her and she dispenses pocket money to him. She pays all the big bills. If they eat out, it is generally the wife who discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known...
Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...