Word: pocketed
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...others remains unclear. Tantalizing bits of evidence link him to the most murderous offshoots of the antiabortion movement. After the carnage in Brookline, Massachusetts, for example, Salvi drove to Norfolk, Virginia, and allegedly blasted out the windows of the Hillcrest Clinic, which even locals have trouble finding. In his pocket was the telephone number of Donald Spitz, a Norfolk-area proponent of "justifiable homicide'' who has been a frequent protester at Hillcrest. Yet so far an extensive federal investigation has failed to establish a criminal conspiracy in the Salvi case or any other abortion-related shooting...
Nomenclature can obscure the magnitude of this change. When people talk of allowing concealed weapons, there is a tendency to imagine legions of citizens who had previously carried their Smith & Wessons on their hips gratefully slipping them into a coat pocket. But since half the states flatly ban carrying an exposed weapon (and the practice attracts unwanted attention everywhere), restrictions on concealment are effectively restrictions on almost any carrying of handguns outside the home. As the states change their CCW laws, citizens may have to endure background checks and waiting periods to procure their handguns, but most will also...
...suspect motioned as if he had a gun in his pocket, knocked a female store employee to the ground and then ran off with the all the cash in the register, police said...
...tall, skinny man right inside the door beckons. All I can see are red wooden signs that circle the room: Danger Third Rail, they read. The crowd inside--one baseball cap, three berets--is mostly hip people in their mid-40s. I put the cigarette back in my pocket...
...themselves through the day, people will carry pocket-size Personal Assistants, called smart badges or smart cards, encoded with basic information that uniquely identifies them. Simple versions of such devices would allow their carriers to walk through security checkpoints -- a concept already being tested in a section of the Paris Metro, where commuters need never remove the card from their pockets...