Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of the week in London this season, a citizen with a couple of shillings in his pocket and a yen to go to the show could have had a ball. He could also have had a fit trying to make up his mind. Should he see Shaw? There would be four revivals in London in the course of the year, one of them with Sir Ralph Richardson. Coward? Four of his plays would run, with Noel in two of them. Arthur Miller? Sir Alec Guinness just opened in Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less...
...When I was a little boy, 'bout the age of five, I felt somethin' in my pocket that keep a lot of folks alive...
Richard's great-grandson stumbled onto that, he spirited it off to Munich's Karl and Faber auction house to sell for pocket money. "Götterdämmerung!" the family muttered when they heard what Wummi was up to. When the auction house refused to withdraw the sketch, the Wagners bid it back from themselves for $26,200, and dolefully paid $5,700 in commissions to the auctioneers. Wummi got not a pfennig...
With a federal grant, the University of Michigan's English Professor Daniel Fader has devised a special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep...
...great day, early last month, aboard British Petroleum's offshore drilling rig Sea Gem, anchored 42 miles off the coast of Britain in the North Sea. Flow tests of the natural-gas pocket discovered at the site showed a capacity of 10 million cu. ft. a day, enough to supply the fuel needs of a town of 300,000 people and to prompt Britain's Minister of Power, Frederick Lee, to recommend building an undersea pipeline (at some $250,000 per mile) to bring the gas to land by late 1967 or early...