Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second time, a girl might try the abortion school. The abortionst is usually a jeweler who is looking for a little pocket money and a way to sell more earrings. Often, the jeweler does not charge for the piercing, but insists that the girl buy a pair of twenty-dollar earrings before she leaves. After the potential piercee picks out her earrings, she sits on a stool with her back against the wall, while the piercer jabs a thick needle through the lobe into the cork he is holding behind it. The pain is minimal, and the results are often...
...weekend, checked into St. Martin's Church at Fulton Avenue and Fayette Street, on the city's multiracial, row-house downtown fringe. The group included doctors, lawyers, day laborers, college students, a veterinarian and a politician. When they registered at the door, they were asked to pocket their wristwatches. Until Sunday night, their hours would be on God's time, as they went through a new method of spiritual renewal known as Cursillos de Cristiandad (Spanish for Little Courses in Christianity...
...proved just as hopeless. One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor. The populace flocked eagerly to the games, all right-with a bottle of booze in almost every pocket...
...radio transmitter that slips easily into the jacket pocket or handbag, transmits nearby voices to a receiver three blocks away...
...microphone embedded in a bite-size rubber pad (1½ inches square, one-quarter inch thick) that can be carried in the investigator's palm, attached to an amplifier in his coat pocket; when pressed against a phone booth or a door, it relays the action through an earplug that looks like part of a hearing aid. Hotel dicks love...