Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, after his wife's underwear appeared in his pocket...
...ability to "see" such events, the one taking place 477 million miles away and the other in a small, remote pocket of central Africa, is a fairly recent human acquisition. Not so very long ago, before communications satellites and attendant technologies wired the world, the news about what happened on Jupiter and along the eastern border of Zaire last week would have spread, if at all, largely by print or word of mouth...
...command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville, Florida, psychiatrist who worked in a veterans' hospital and sees the film...
...from a Chain Gang to Field of Dreams, the male weepie has been a dependable genre. And Gump, to its credit, is not one of those cry-by-night (but you hate yourself in the morning) exercises in emotional blackmail. It's fairly honorable about picking your heart's pocket...
...plus meals for squinting into the near distance and making a call that could well determine if a player advances to, say, the fourth round. Trifling it's not. Those players who do advance that far earn $67,000 this year; the men's winner will pocket $517,000. Says Gangji, who first began drawing a salary only four years ago: "I'm not going to become a millionaire, but at least we are getting the respect we deserve now. Besides, I love the sport...