Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jabbed by thorns and needlebushes, wearily resting from time to time on the rotting jungle mat that teemed with ants, snakes, and scorpions. At night they placed their tents on the squishy forest floor, undressed and burned the leeches off their bodies with glowing cigarettes. Here and there, muffled pocket transistor radios brought rock 'n' roll from Saigon, but fires were forbidden, and still the rains came, filling trenches with water as soon as they were...
...Premier Moise Tshombe, who was busy in Leopoldville preparing for the opening this week of the first Congolese parliament to meet in two years. Although Tshombe had managed to put down the bloody Simba rebellion and hold elections throughout most of the Congo, there was still a large rebel pocket in the mountainous area of the eastern Congo around Fizi, just across the lake from Kigoma...
...already hooked on heroin. Despite this, he formed his own group, and in the early 1950s became the dominant figure in the newly emerging "cool school." But he was spending $70 a day for drugs. In 1954, he walked into a Seattle drugstore, stuck his finger in his pocket and demanded narcotics. When the clerk asked to see his gun, he fled. Incongruously, a few minutes later he telephoned the pharmacy to apologize. Police traced the call to his hotel room and arrested him. He collapsed and was removed to a hospital. From his hospital bed, he vowed "to break...
...first year Jack Nicklaus decided that playing golf was a nicer way to make a million than selling insurance, he merely won the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29, 1962), two other tournaments, and pocketed $61,869 in official earnings. That year Arnold Palmer, golf's reigning king, won eight tournaments and took home $81,448. In his sophomore year, Nicklaus won five tournaments and $100,040. Palmer was still king with seven victories and $128,230. After that, it was goodbye Arnie. In his junior year, Nicklaus won four tournaments to Palmer's two and collected...
...Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed it into his hip and started for the setting sun." Somewhere west of Jacksboro, Jim stopped running and took his first job as a cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night...