Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year old Music Club conceived its chamber orchestra, a pocket sized edition of the familiar symphony orchestra, this year to fill what club president Noel D. Lee '46 calls "a musical void at Harvard...
...journalists, one English, one American, thought there were. Together they talked a group of English backers into supporting the hunch with ?23,000. Last week they put out the first issue of the 16-page, pocket-size weekly American Outlook. Outlook will sell for a whopping five guineas ($21) a year, and will break even only if it gets 5,000 subscribers...
...been struck in the heart by a stone. Mr. Drake frowned and drummed his fingers, Mr. Cook began biting his thumbnail and leered in fury, Mr. Porter became homely and paternal, Williams gave a scheming look at her legs, the stage-struck Hodgkin took a comb out of his pocket and ran it through his waved hair. Turpin and Sawston, who were on opposite sides of the same, high, tilted desk, looked at each other fixedly. They looked as though they were trying to hypnotize each other. Taking small hard steps, her red lips pettishly drooping, her head...
...toiled amid swaying cargo nets, blue-eyed, 50-year-old Charley Ross* looked like the prototype of all San Francisco longshoremen. He weighed 185 pounds with a bailing hook in his hip pocket; he had broad, sloping shoulders, stubby hands, and a stevedore's pugnacious attitude toward bosses and beer. When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect...
Distant, dusty, and millennially old, Yenan had been the ideal Communist capital-equally inaccessible to invading Japs and preoccupied Nationalists. Now that it was indefensible against Chiang, the Communists would continue the fight in other areas, such as the Communist pocket in coastal Shantung Province and, preeminently, on the Manchurian front. (Last week Shanghai heard that Russian troops were at long last pulling out of Dairen...