Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot of it was that the innocent husband, like any TIMEman, went home with a pocket full of cold pills and instructions...
...Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom bomb in one pocket and an Easter egg in the other. Against us are those Americans who are against the American people, those Englishmen who are against the English people, those Frenchmen who are against the French people . . . but in every country we have one friend, the people. . . . May Day will conquer...
Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury...
...pocket comb which sprays hair tonic as it combs...
...Technicolor through the not particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...