Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Bike Money. French industry shuts down almost completely during August, giving workers four weeks' vacation, and in almost every other European country workers get at least three weeks away from the job. German companies provide their vacationing employees with extra pocket money, as much as 30% of regular pay, while Italian firms run vacation facilities specifically for employees. The average American must work for a company for ten years before getting three weeks, gets only one week during his first three years, and has never heard of extra vacation money or company resorts...
There are people who say that Harvard should not stoop to commercial levels. That is a bit unrealistic and pretentious. How much money, for example, did Harvard pocket from the Dartmouth game? Funds from athletic contests go back into the University, though not into the athletic program...
...quarterback's job, and he still had a lot to learn. Endlessly, Terry practiced "quick release": dropping back, spotting Seymour, and firing, all in the space of 3½ sec., the average time it takes a strong defensive lineman to penetrate a passer's protective pocket. When he got his time down to 3½ sec., he began trying for 3 sec. Then Terry practiced varying the speed of his spiral: "When a man is wide open," he explained, "there is no sense barreling it in there. But when the defensive man is close enough to grab...
...Strauss: the basic duty of the opera conductor is to buoy up rather than drown out the singers. Böhm's stickwork, as spare and exacting as needlepoint, is also an inheritance from Strauss, who, to contain his enthusiasm, often conducted with his left hand in his pocket. Years ago, during a Dresden performance of Die Frau, Strauss forgot himself and signaled a climax by thrusting both fists in the air. Böhm later chided him for it. At the next performance, the composer introduced the climax by shaking only his right hand in the air; with...
...moved quickly. With tears in his eyes, he made a passionate appeal to the dissenters not to destroy government unity on the eve of the Manila Conference, got them to agree to pocket their resignations for the time being. But the crisis was merely postponed. The southerners have put a price on their continued collaboration with Ky: an end to "northern domination," and the dismissal of General Loan, whose tough tactics, they insist, give the regime "the image of a police state...