Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
Elated by last week's general ruling, Hill made plans to press on through the courts for an injunction against WPAZ. "This is a boon to every newspaperman who has had his stuff swiped," he said. "This lifting of stories was just like getting my pocket picked." Some other Pennsylvania editors agreed, including those pestered by opposition papers who do not bother to do any reporting on their own. For the Supreme Court made it clear that its ruling was a warning to newspapers as well as broadcasters...
These days Machado directs the party from a comfortable, middle-class apartment in Caracas and an office in the National Congress Building. His hair turned a distinguished white, the Communist boss carries (as do many Venezuelan politicos) a .38 pistol in his pocket. Of his family, he says that three of his brothers and two sisters are "members of the oligarchy-but good people in spite of that." He is "proud" of the work of the F.A.L.N., and explains its attacks on U.S. holdings by saying, "The enemy of the Venezuelan liberation movement is the U.S. monopolists...
...COUNTRY CLUBS & YACHTS. Deductible only if used more than 50% for business. Example: if a taxpayer uses his country club 75% for business, he may deduct 75% of the dues, plus out-of-pocket costs for entertaining customers at the club...
...blades with electronically generated sound to see if the blades resonate at a frequency that indicates there is no danger of breakage. Westinghouse uses ultrasonics -super high-frequency sound waves - to probe right through big forgings in the rotors of its giant $2 million turbine generators and detect air pockets or cracks inside the metal; since it began this test, Westinghouse has not had a single forging break on the job. An ultrasonic tester used by Republic Steel can measure the thickness of a coat of paint or locate an air pocket 40 ft. deep in solid steel...