Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ovation for 28 minutes, interrupted his 35-minute speech more than 100 times with applause. In Cleveland's Public Hall, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 yelled, screamed, honked horns and rang bells for eleven minutes before Barry finally got them quiet by holding up a silver pocket watch. In Pittsburgh, 15,000 jammed the Civic Arena, raised the roof for 19 minutes before letting the candidate open his mouth...
...writing-to-family system. In London, best known are Universal Aunts and Hunt-Regina. Applicants at Paris' Accueil Familial des Jeunes Etrangers pay a $5 registration fee, must agree to stay with the family selected for at least six months. In ex change for room and board and pocket money (up to $10), the family gets a built-in baby sitter and mother's help er, generally of comparable social standing and education. The girl gets time off for classes and homework, some free nights, and one full day a week for herself. For guidance, she can turn...
...smile, the "Hello, I'm ----. Remember me at the polls," and the traditional politician's handshake--right hand shaking right hand, left hand holding the elbow. The official explanation for that left hand at the elbow is that it assures the voter that the hand is not in his pocket...
Long before Poet T. S. Eliot expounded his theory of the "auditory imagination," Pioneer Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins used pocket poetry to make "Phoebe Snow" glamorize passenger service on the coal-burning Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Slogans nearly always overload the language and often debase it ("cof-fee-er coffee"). English teachers curse Madison Avenue for institutionalizing bad grammar with such calculated lapses as "us Tareyton smokers" and "like a cigarette should." By contrast, some of history's most enduring slogans were plucked from literature. Winston Churchill's call to "blood, sweat and tears"-boiled down from...
...evening after the first Freedom Day a white, who was drunk, walked into COFO headquarters with a pistol bulging in his pocket. He began a conversation with one of the workers in which he threatened his life--but he left when the worker calmly walked out of the room...