Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splash at N.A.A.C.P. meetings, made himself as unobtrusive as possible. But last week, as he hurried up the steps of the law school building for his third day of classes in the new fall term, McDow ell dropped his sunglasses. He stooped to retrieve them - and out of his pocket fell a .22-cal. pistol. When he walked out of class, he was arrested by County Sheriff Joe Ford. A day later, McDow ell, 22, was expelled from Ole Miss...
...vividly theatrical and sets the drama surging. It begins with a colorful scene of indulgence peddling, the churchly abuse that first roused Luther's ire. With drums beating, trumpets blaring and cash boxes gaping, the porcine, goggle-eyed monk Tetzel (Peter Bull) dips a grasping tentacle into every pocket as he makes a carnival-pitchman's promise of pardon for sins committed or intended by persons living or dead, provided one buys a letter of indulgence. After Luther nails his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, he is summoned by the papal legate Cajetan (John Moffatt). Cajetan...
...handle bars. A motor scooter with two 16-year-old white boys aboard approached from the opposite direction. James Ware, 16, told what happened then: "This boy on the front of the bike turns and says something to the boy behind him, and the other reaches in his pocket and he says Pow! Pow! with a gun twice. Virgil fell and I said, get up Virgil, and he said, I can't, I'm shot...
...McDowell was apparently late to a class Monday and was running up the steps of the law school building when his sun glasses fell off," the editor said. "He leened over to pick up the glasses and the gun fell out of his pocket. Quite a few students saw him drop...
...traveled. One who can write pleasantly of a Scottish Sabbath has to be a pleasant man; Reid is all that, and a much more reliable one than Carson. Unhappily, he gives the impression that however far he traveled, he always had a return ticket tucked into an inside pocket. There is only one place where the paths of these men might possibly have crossed. In Gibraltar, Carson was arrested on suspicion of smuggling dope; Reid interviewed the mayor...