Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrangement was innocent enough. Though he ranks a lowly 97th in Senate seniority, Percy is deluged daily with some 1,500 letters and 200 telephone calls. Having exhausted his Senate office allowance of $279,306, he has had to dig into his own pocket for $80,000 to run his official business. The fund, led by the three Chicagoans, had as its goal $100,000 a year to meet Percy's expenses...
...like this." As it was, the underwriters were only too honored to cover Prince Charles, 19, all proper and legal-like as the owner of his first car, a six-cylinder, 127-m.p.h. MGC-GT. The car cost $3,120-out of the Prince's own pocket-and boasts such embellishments as an electrically controlled aerial and a leather-covered steering wheel. It has a bull horn that has already caused mumbles in the Noise Abatement Society. Charles will keep the car at Sandringham House for use on weekends and vacations from Cambridge, 50 miles away. The university, less...
...well that Davidson only once all game got his hands on Starr. Led by End Willie Davis, who contributed seven tackles, Green Bay's own "front four" dumped Raider Quarterback Daryle Lamonica three times, harassed him so severely that he was constantly forced to scramble out of the pocket and hurry his passes...
...concerts, played bass in the academy orchestra ("I learned a lot about orchestra psychology"), and gravitated to the conducting classes of Hans Swarowsky. The revered teacher recognized in Mehta a "demoniac conductor" who "had it all." Nevertheless, he put Mehta through the usual drills: left hand in his pocket, right sleeve tied to a desk, conducting only with wrist movements of the right hand while Swarowsky sometimes paced behind him, muttering criticisms in three languages to test his concentration...
During the course of the speech, Hayes referred to "one councillor" and "that man" who "ran the City from his hip pocket" before the DeGuglielmo administration. He charged the unnamed councillor with giving preferential treatment to the Wasserman Development Corporation Company, a construction company, Hayes claimed that several schools built during this period suffered from construction defects...