Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, after Kennedy had indicated that he would run, Lyndon Johnson lowered his cheerful fa cade. Oscillating in his rocking chair, jingling the coins in his pocket, the President squinted out over the south lawn and told a visitor in brooding tones: "Bobby Kennedy has been a candidate since the first day I sat here...
...expenses for an upperclass scholarship student will rise by about $100 next year, and the student will have to pay for the increase out of his own pocket...
THIS recommendation nettles humanists who argue that the computer use is like a trip to Florence for a Fine Arts student or a visit to the archives in Washington by a government concentrator-a luxury which ought to come out of the student's pocket, not Faculty of Arts and Sciences funds. It could be argued that computers are becoming a necessity like libraries, but Mosteller prefers not to. "Argument by analogy usually gets one into trouble," he says, dismissing the question with a quiet smile...
...heavy, maxi-length overcoat. For evening, John Weitz, a onetime race-car driver, showed a Levi-styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling the wearer to rush from boudoir to battlefield...
Author Levin ranges skillfully through Berlin ministries, where Nazi bureaucrats enthusiastically pursued their policy of Endlosung ("final solution") for the Jews, to Warsaw's Umschlagplatz, a transfer point to Treblinka, where a child's tongue was cut out "with a pocket knife for making a face at a guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward...