Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of panties before, became ecstatic over being able to buy five pairs out of the $75 charge account given each volunteer to supplement her Government-issue wardrobe. The girls will receive an additional $65 allowance for winter clothing later in the year. Recruits also get $30 a month pocket money and $50 a month put aside for when they leave the Job Corps. Out of this $50, the trainees may send up to $25 home, and in that event, the Government matches...
...physical violence, and Biff dropped the attempt. Bundie was stymied. There seemed to be only one way out of the imbroglio he had so deftly hammered himself into: he would have to reveal his secret identity as a University policeman. Sighing deeply, Biff reached into his right inside coat pocket for his badge...
Bundie shoved the piece of green and white paper back into his pocket. "The whole thing was too overpowering," he thought. "Two murders, a mysterious phone call, a man with a gun." Suddenly the Chief rose from his desk, snapping Biff out of his reverie...
Letter from lke Few men are more sensitive to criticism than President Johnson, and his mood was not notably improved by a demand from Charles de Gaulle that he pull the marines out of the Dominican Republic. Time and again during the week, Johnson pulled from his pocket a recent letter from Dwight Eisenhower, who wrote: "If there is any who opposes the President in his conduct of our foreign affairs, he should send his views on a confidential basis to the Administration; none of us should try to divide the support that citizens owe to their head of state...
...Ball started out as a musical. But when the show began coming unstuck, Comic Buddy Hackett simply stuffed the play in his hip pocket and forgot about it. He now scatters nightclub-style monologues throughout the show, and after the final curtain, in between ad libs, puts on his fellow actors and clowns away to his heart's content. Everyone has such a good time that in its 20th week the third-rate show took in a respectable $50,000-plus...