Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somebody once said that "proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth." If so, the place to study late-stage delinquency last week was Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, site of the World Pocket Billiard Championship...
...poor Simone had ridden past her stop. Instead of disappearing, as was his practice, Huu gallantly accompanied her to a hotel room in Le Fayet to comfort her while she recovered from the dope. There she managed to notify police, who found a loaded bonbon in Huu's pocket and locked...
...horse has to be stabled, fed, trained to race; at big Eastern tracks that costs $15 a day. The vet collects $10 or so to give the animal an aspirin, and the blacksmith charges $18.50 for a set of shoes. A man could be out of pocket $100,000 or more by Derby time for his three-year-old. He then pays $100 for the original nomination, $250 to pass the entry box, another $1,250 to start. The winner's purse: about...
...American Library, not Pocket Books, that paid $500,000 for the paperback reprint rights to Kathleen Winsor's new novel, Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West [March 12]. N.A.L. also published Miss Winsor's Forever Amber, Star Money, The Lovers and America with Love in paperback...
Back in Coates's office, Ruiz pulled a paper bag with a suspicious bulge out of his pocket. "Here it comes," thought the reporter. But all that emerged from the bag was a pint of Scotch. "You care if I take a few nips while we talk? I feel pretty shaky," said Ruiz, shaking...