Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic program to a tax cut as its solution to all that is amiss in the economy. The Administration's theory is that the way to get at U.S. unemployment, which stays at a persistently high figure (5.7%), is to put more money in the consumer's pocket to increase demand and more in the corporation's coffers to encourage investment in plant and equipment, which in turn creates new jobs...
Died. Fritz Reiner, 74, master conductor, a squat, lusty Hungarian with a precise "vest-pocket" podium style (a daring musician once brought a telescope to rehearsal to catch his minuscule beat), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1922, taught Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Schippers, directed the Pittsburgh and Metropolitan Opera orchestras before going to the fading Chicago Symphony in 1953, which he whipped into one of the world's finest ensembles, with a repertory that ran from Mozart to his countryman Kodaly; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot. He handed it to the board president, who solemnly announced, "His Excellency Francisco Franco Bahamonde, profession-Chief of State, married and with residence in the Palace of El Pardo, votes," and dropped the folded paper...
...last week's Business Equipment Show in Manhattan was a pocket-sized executive finder that buzzes when the hapless executive-loitering in the washroom or on his way downstairs for a quick one-is wanted on the phone...
Fortunately, Pitts is an expert on bootstrap operations. His penniless father, a Georgia tenant farmer, raised eight children on peas and corn bread and dreamed of educating all of them. Pitts arrived at Negro Paine College in 1934 with $13 in his pocket, worked his way washing dishes. After two years he went blind. At length he recovered sight in one eye and quit college to "keep school" in Milan, Ga., for $47.50 a month. He saved money, but his father borrowed it-$50 here, $100 there. One day, urging him to finish college, his father produced all the "borrowed...