Word: pocketed
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...British officials confronted the challenge of detoxifying a 24-year tyranny. How could they know the good guys from the bad, know how far down the Baath Party ladder to purge, know which tribal leaders were legitimate representatives of their people and which had been in Saddam's pocket? In a very real and horrifying way, the ransacking of government offices and power centers--all the resentment and retribution against the network of stoolies, spies and party apparatchiks--is part of the de-Baathification that both critics and proponents of the invasion had insisted would ultimately be necessary. There...
...some point in the fight, prosecutors said, Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono five times with a pocket knife later recovered in his apartment...
...some point in the fight, prosecutors said, Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono five times with a pocket knife later recovered in his apartment...
...huge difference - you'll still sign your name when you come in the door, and your name will be called when it's time for you to see the doctor. But you won't write down the reason for your appointment, and your chart, which is slipped into a pocket on the outside of the exam room door, will face inward to keep anyone in the hallway from reading...
Officials said Saturday that they had not recovered a weapon, but Denner said that his client had defended himself using a pocket knife with a three inch blade...