Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population jumps to 16,000 in July and August; last summer 200,000 sightseers overran its quaint cobblestone streets and lolled on its beaches. Salty natives sneer that one-day visitors "come with a five-dollar bill and a dirty shirt and change neither." Nevertheless, local businessmen gladly pocket the $20 million a year spent annually on bus trips, postcards and clam chowder. In fact, the tourist trade is growing so rapidly that many "off-islanders," the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic hideaway lose its charm...
...date out of a Detroit restaurant one night, announced they were going to teach him that colored boys should leave white girls alone. "One guy started to pull a pistol," he recalls, "but I was able to grab it before he could quite get it out of his pocket. I had to fight him in the street...
Painful Riders. Losers of damage suits are notoriously slow payers, and all too often the winner finds himself back in court fighting to collect what the law has said is rightfully his. But Adams' debtor, after all, was the U.S. Government. His money seemed practically in his pocket...
...program that last summer employed 23,000 teenagers, some 1,500 youths descended upon Mayor John Lindsay's City Hall office in protest. In a three-hour near-riot, they smashed car windows and shouted some new slogans, including "Earn or burn" and "Sock it to my pocket." Lindsay denounced the ruckus as "disgraceful," then announced that the city would ante up some $5,000,000 that had been previously earmarked for the program...
...should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely to pocket that state's electoral votes. With Rockefeller on the Republican ticket, a tide of pro-Wallace protest voters could give Arizona and Utah, and possibly others, to the Democrats...