Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heada Hereford, and some hogs. We raise a little barley. Dad an' me do most of the work, but we got two men who help us part time." One of the ranch hands materializes at his side like a movie extra and sharpens his knife on a pocket stone. It is 100° in the yard. "There's not much money in ranchin' around here," continues McCorry. "One trouble is the rain. In a year we don't get but ten, eleven inches. We get a lot of fires. A fire last year burned 9,000 acres around here...
...eager for Saturday overtime of $27.94. Charmain, after the birth of a third son, worked the 4 to midnight shift as a packer in a toilet-tissue plant. "That's the laugh of the whole thing," she said after her husband fled the police with $40 in his pocket. "You don't work at night in a factory when you have hidden resources." Only occasionally did the Biggses splurge. On their last big evening out, a month ago, a Melbourne nightclub photographer snapped a picture of them sipping wine and enjoying crêpes. After the manhunt...
JOHNSTON CITY, Illinois-The world's All-Around Pocket Billiards Championship is in its final days. Pool sharks from all parts of the country annually congregate in Johnston City (pop. 3900), a rural city in southern Illinois, during October to contest the $20,000 prize money...
...pocket champion has yet to be crowned. Verteran observers feel that tonight's match between Boston Shorty and Ronnie Allen will be crucial. The victor should be able to dominate the rest of the one-pocket field. Sentiment runs heavily in favor of Boston's five-foot, two-inch pool wizard, but the hard money makes the unpopular California motor mouth a 7-5 favorite...
...ways of arriving at first base. Not even the umpire, for instance, knew that Batter Cleon Jones had been hit on the foot by a pitch -until Manager Gilbert Hodges produced the ball with shoe blacking on it. Some said that Hodges had carried that smudged ball in his pocket all season long, waiting for the wonderful moment when it would be needed...