Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artificial pacemakers that have been implanted in the bodies of thousands of heart-disease patients in the past few years, interference and fatigue are proving to be troublesome. Difficulties may show up when the patient is still on the operating table, while the pacemaker is being inserted in a pocket of chest or abdominal muscle, or they may develop years later...
...Colgate-Palmolive is giving out sports books as premiums in its shaving-cream kits, and Squibb is pushing its new artificial sweetener, Sweeta, by giving away a sugar-free cookbook with each bottle. The biggest book users are insurance companies and banks, which pass out Merriam-Webster's pocket dictionary, home medical guides and dozens of others to push salesmen into living rooms or to locate loan prospects...
...division to handle books for business. Venerable Doubleday & Co. doubled its sales of such books within a year, in 1964 printed 3,000,000 books for 25 corporations. Deepest in the book business is little Benjamin Co., a 20-man organization that distributes the books of 20 publishers, including Pocket Books, Bantam, Golden Press and Simon and Schuster. Headed by former Advertising Executive Roy Benjamin, 48, the company offers a choice of 10,000 titles (including 60 cookbooks), this year will sell more than 5,000,000 books to business...
...rolled into Buta, the rebels had already fled and only eleven survivors were anywhere to be found. Two nights earlier, the Simbas had thrown 31 Belgian and Dutch priests to the crocodiles. Militarily, the operation was a success: Hoare lost only four men in wiping out the last large pocket of Simba territory. But in all, it had cost the lives of at least 52 hostages, and 42 others had vanished with the Simbas into the jungle. "I'm very, very sorry," said Premier Moise Tshombe, who was in the middle of a fund-raising tour of Europe...
...were being returned to dust. But no one has reduced the image of man to such near nothingness as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti. During the 1940s, his sculptures shrank so much that he carried the results of four years' work in six matchboxes in his pocket; and since then, try as he may, his lovely, attenuated figures still look like fugitives from a cane gang. Inevitably, Giacometti's search for essentials gave his work a lean and existential look, leading Jean-Paul Sartre to write admiringly: "For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space...