Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as unprepossessing as a baker-a calm, pudgy little man who kept an old pipe in the pocket of his untidy blue serge suit. But his looks were deceiving. Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of TIME, a Quaker, was a brilliant intellectual. Before 1938, he had been a Communist courier for the Soviet "apparatus" in Washington...
Chick, who had progressed from stealing milk bottles to shoplifting, told why it was difficult to stop: "When you're used to having money in your pocket, you'll always want it. When your pocket's empty, it's got to be full. It's sort of like an automobile-can't run without gasoline." Frank explained what happened to $500 he'd stolen: "I gave $10 to my mother and told her I won it in a dice game. And I gave $10 to my brother . . . And the rest, I-I went...
...first bid was 15,000 guineas ($51,000). According to legend, a tipsy hack driver, without a quarter in his pocket, kept raising the bidding until it reached $100,000. Actually, 75 seconds after the bidding opened, Australian Industrialist W. J. Smith got the horse for about $88,000. Two months later, Shannon headed for fabled California, where $100,000 purses grow on bushes...
...thin lead in the compulsory school figures. But them came Button's bread and butter specialty--free skating. For five straight minutes, Dick exploded with his assortment of jumps and turns, and that was that. After beating Gerschweiler, it was easy for the Englewood, New Jersey, athlete to pocket the Olympic title at St. Moritz and then the world's championship at Davoz...
...chief pocket was the Communists at Hankow. They had started north with Chiang, but got orders from Moscow in 1927 to become the Kuomintang's master instead of its ally. Through his agents, Chiang learned of the Moscow orders to Borodin almost as soon as Borodin himself. Chiang moved first. His army scattered the Chinese Communists into the hills of Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces. Michael Borodin escaped to Moscow...