Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Komm." The Russian shuffled along stoically, gripping a long papirosa between yellow stained teeth as he fished in a pocket for matches. Suddenly his face clouded. He hitched the Tommy gun higher under his arm, took a dirty piece of paper from the wide, ragged sleeve of his shinel, and scowled at it. After a few steps he stuffed the paper back carefully, stared for a moment at the bent backs of the prisoners, then searched the strained faces of a new load of commuters just leaving the station...
...time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher, such rowdyism is a deliberate way of life...
With a big wad burning a hole in his pocket, Paul F. Clark, president of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., dropped in on Los Angeles. He wanted to invest his company's cash in a new housing project which house-hungry Los Angeles badly needed. But last week Clark decided against it; he saw clouds ahead for even Sunkist Angelenos. Said he: "We can't help solve your housing problem because of your real-estate inflation. An insurance company can't invest in blown-up values. Real estate is more inflated in California...
...passers-by, presumably of Scotch ancestry, heard the coppers clink and grovelled, they blistered digits on the wandering coins. The Yardlings grew bolder as the evening were on, and after several near misses, conked a man who carried three red pencils in his breast pocket...
...time when the big stick has become an atom bomb, it is dangerous for the United States to lump foreign policy and domestic political-economic problems together in one pocket. We have been doing just that regarding our relations with the Soviet Union and with home-baked Communists. America may oppose Russian expansion towards the Dardanelles or Middle East oil, but we cannot do so simply because Russia is a Communist state and we dislike the American Communists. Similarly, it is a fallacy to oppose American Communists simply because we disapprove of Russian foreign policy...