Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost of the National Endowment for the Arts amounts to about 69 cents -- not dollars, just pocket change -- per U.S. citizen per year. Its share of total public spending is so small that in the short form of the federal budget, it is rounded off to zero. Of the nearly 90,000 NEA grants awarded over the past quarter-century, at most a few dozen have sparked any significant public controversy -- and the cumulative cost of all those was less than a cent a person, at a time when people often won't stoop to pick up a penny from...
...group of youths were creating a disturbance at the rear of Loeb Drama. While conducting a threshold inquiry, a clear plastic bag was sticking out of the suspect's pocket, which appeared to be marijuana. The suspect was arrested and evidence was secured. This will be sent to the state lab to be tested...
...Connecticut, was very proud of her lingerie and had taken to flashing friends and family. To make a long story short, the bra journeyed from Clare to her little brother, somehow ended up in my seven-year-old cousin's room and was finally placed in my uncle's pocket...
Called personal communications networks, these systems operate much like cellular phones but are not intended for cars. Instead they are designed for pedestrian use and will consist of pocket phones so small they can be folded up like a wallet to the size of a pack of cigarettes. They can be smaller and less expensive than conventional cellular phones because they need to be powerful enough only to transmit to one of hundreds of receiving stations located throughout the local cable network. The user could thus bypass the local phone company, which makes the PCN system a threat...
...shoulders during their last dance and asking them if you could run off with their food?" How Important? 1 How Pathetic? 4 The unsigned letter conjures up the alarming image of an ogre in an ill-fitting tux trying to stuff just one more petit-fours in his pocket...