Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fighters--Gideon's army," as he calls it. Whether rattling around the Midwest in his battered Toyota, the Mamas and the Papas playing on his tape deck, or flying on frenetic forays through Maryland, Mississippi, Kansas and Louisiana, he carries everywhere a camouflage-covered Bible. Also in his pocket: a worn copy of the Combat Leader's Field Guide with chapters such as "Ambushes" and "Prisoners of War." Inside the flaps are phone numbers of anticasino agitators in Waterloo, Iowa; Merrillville, Indiana; Pomona, California; Delavan, Wisconsin and beyond. "We're fighting a battle for the soul of America," he says...
...Louis is an exception. On two recent nights some 70% of the Casino Queen's patrons were white, many of them from across the river in Missouri. "Casino gambling is a shell game," explains Earl Grinols, a University of Illinois economics professor, "attracting dollars from one person's pocket to another and from one region to another...
...USED THE MINIATURE TAPE REcorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would do much more than capture a lecture. It was a microcassette found in Kathleen Weinstein's shirt pocket that not only led police to her alleged killer but also revealed the New Jersey teacher to be a woman of extraordinary courage and compassion...
...powers of persuasion were to no avail. Weinstein's body, with hands and feet bound, was discovered by a hiker on March 17. She had been smothered with her coat. But before she died she somehow slipped the cassette into her pocket without her killer knowing it. Because Weinstein had asked LaSane about himself and his family, police quickly had their suspect, the son of a county probation-department employee. "Our impression was that she was very aware she was leaving something behind," says Carluccio. He will not comment on LaSane's side of the conversation except to say, "When...
Nader is more interested in spreading his message than winning. He is raising no money and intends to spend less than $5,000 from his own pocket, foreseeing a campaign of video- and audiocassettes. Still, Republicans are excited about his prospects. Says G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff: "The Greens are my favorite little splinter party...