Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long Way to Go. Tax money that should go for law enforcement in Guerrero often finds its way into someone's pocket. One day recently, almost 20% of Acapulco's 120-man police force quit because it had not been paid for 70 days. The state police force has dwindled from an original 140 men a year ago to ten; the policemen quit or get killed off faster than they can be replaced...
...twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into a girdle; she also shuns bras and stockings, to say nothing of accessories. She doesn't own a fur coat, and about the only jewelry she wears is a man's pocket watch on a chain. "She just couldn't care less about clothes," says an old friend, who recalls that even in the days when she was winning her first awards she wore $7 dresses. She can afford more ex pensive clothes now, but she hates to get dressed...
...league has a score of concerns and dozens of separate programs, but "the most important thing that we do," says Young, is still "to get jobs for people. 'Green Power' is important for the Negro now. Pride and dignity come when you reach in your pocket and find money, not a hole...
...architect who drew a sketch of the pocket park in front of Holyoke Center populated it with clean-cut collegiates strolling briskly to some important engagement. He clearly did not foresee that the park would be taken over by sedentary hippies mulling over the virtues of tuning in, turning on, and dropping...
...became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings of a major dope scandal...