Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...substantial difference between the living conditions of Turkey today and in 1979. Turkey is not today in a state of crisis. I mean, most Turks carry credit cards, like Americans or Europeans. Some years ago, it was a sin to carry a credit card or foreign exchange in your pocket. You would be jailed for it. Now, I say, we have passed a certain point, and we will not go back...
...people," repeats Hidehisa Mori, 29. Mori, who says he grew up watching dubbed Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies, proudly tugs at his black Stetson and sticks his thumbs over his rattlesnake-buckle belt. Only the Japanese-English dictionary sticking out of his shirt pocket spoils a perfect Marlboro-man look...
...crudely painted with large black strokes on a red ground, imitating the grain of mahogany . . . In front of this panel a black and shiny man is making slow, comic and joyously obscene gestures. This strange fellow has the mustache of my father . . . He smiles and takes out of the pocket of his trousers a large pencil made of some soft material . . . breathing loudly, he hastily traces some black lines on the panel of false mahogany. He quickly gives it new, surprising and despicable forms...
...problems you may not have known you had, a Tokyo company has created an ingenious solution: a card- size device that plays Ave Maria, Yankee Doodle Dandy or one of 100 other tunes when exposed to light and won't shut up until returned to the darkness of a pocket or purse...
...roads from their spartan four-room house in Panther, Rachel, 19, never missed an appointment with her doctor. "She was one of our prize patients," says Kem Short, an outreach worker in the clinic's maternal and infant health program. John, 24, kept an untouched $10 bill in his pocket to buy gasoline for his old truck when Rachel went into labor...