Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Claiborne sadly reported that "Le Pavilion does not exist in all its former grandeur." For one thing, he wrote, "the shrimp were tough, and so was the lobster in the bouillabaisse. The maitre d'hótel walked around with a red pencil sticking out of his breast pocket." And, invraisemblablement: "On a recent evening, the rolls were stale...
...center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket, the venal journalist, the young idealist, the Communist-turned-anti-Communist, and droves of beautiful, compliant women. Almost everyone is a villain, and Vidal seems to dislike his characters even more than the reader is bound to. The author recently observed that American politicians "create illusions and call them facts." Washington attempts...
Tonis made other changes. He kept the central office open 24 hours a day and equipped the men with one-way pocket radios constantly in touch with Grays Hall. Finally, he standardized the type of gun used by the force. Previously officers had carried several kinds, but all had trained with a 32-calibre pistol. The new chief saw to it that the men carried the standard police gun, a 38-calibre pistol, and trained with the same model...
...University Police rarely get their man. To begin with, on campus crimes are usually of the petty and chronic variety that defies solution--stolen pocket-books (100 percent carelessness, Tonis affirms) and in the spring, bicycles. But most important, a campus-bound security force simply lacks the time, men, and training to do serious police work. Even Walsh, despite his clothing, does little real snooping. "He is not," Tonis admits with a trace of a smile, "like a James Bond or a private...
...Blitman's day is a foregone conclusion. At three in the morning, he puts on his wrap-around sunglasses, jams The Sot Weed Factor into his pocket, and goes to the Bick. Since that first cup of coffee at the UR he has spent $4.45 on food and tips. Now he will end it all at the Bick...