Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales manager for a mutual-fund distributor, is of Irish descent. Mrs. Nugent's antecedents are Lithuanian. They sent their tall, athletic son to parochial grammar and prep schools and then to Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he graduated with a B average in history. He earned pocket money by working as a parking-lot attendant and tour guide at the Miller High Life brewery. At school his friends called him "Paddy" or "Nuge." One Marquette professor remembers him as "independent, not one of the herd, a take-charge...
...Would You Believe It?" From the urgent chop-chop of a loudspeaker in a nearby village, Adams could tell that his landing had been spotted and that a search party was being organized. Then an SH-3 helicopter homed in on the pilot's voiced directions from his pocket radio and scooped him to safety. No other American has been rescued so close to North Viet Nam's main population center. Four and a half hours after takeoff, Adams-fondly nicknamed "Bulb" because of his prematurely receding hairline-was back aboard the Oriskany. Squadron 162 greeted him with...
...seeking out the "gold fossickers" in the Bathurst district of New South Wales-site of Australia's booming gold rush just a century ago -had to pick up directions at remote bush stations, then push into the hills and gullies. At the Turon River Valley they found a pocket of prospectors living in ancient humpies-huts whose name derives from the aboriginal oompi plus a cockney h-and one old recluse dwelling in the straight-up-and-down cliffs of the Macquarie River. In the southern snow fields of the Crackenback Range around Thredbo, Smiggin Holes and Jindabyne, pretty...
...arrived, charging Jerry Lewis $300 for a cognac-colored dinner jacket, and William Holden $200 for a silk jump suit, best known as the creator of what he called "the Ail-American Suit," a $350 set of threads honed down to essentials-no cuffs, no belt, no handkerchief pocket; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...reached for his cigarettes he punched in the mouth and in the stomach. In the scuffle, the student ripped attacker's shirt pocket off. Grabbed from behind and pounded on the head from both sides, the student finally hit at them and broke for his door...