Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offender, Laborite James Dixon Murray, an ex-miner, hastily crammed orange and peelings into his pocket. But Boothby's motive was not to shame a Laborite. He is allergic to oranges: "I simply can't stand the smell of the things...
Kaiser's own shipping costs for steel from his Fontana plant had gone up 17½% in the general freight rate carriers. At the news that his Utah competitor was actually getting a reduction, he jumped as if someone had dropped a hot rivet in his pocket. The lowered Geneva freight cut, he cried, would amount to a "subsidy of some $1,200,000 a year" to Geneva. In his complaint Kaiser had some strange allies: the eastern steel companies, competitors of U.S. Steel, whom he had long condemned...
...shade of the banana trees, the average Guatemalan peon knew little enough of these facts. True, he had not seen a blond, German-speaking finquero in years, but the finquero had lived in Guatemala City and Juanito had seldom seen him anyway. More money jingled in Juanito's pocket (his wages were recently hiked from 5? to 50? a day), but higher prices had just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss, the same finca manager who had been...
Hummon hollered like a bull in fly time. "The Rome case was brought as a ruse by agreement between all parties to it," he said. "I am informed that as soon as the case was presented to him the judge reached into his pocket and pulled out an opinion he had already written...
...afternoon last week, lanky, six-foot Freshman George Allen, 15, saw that he might miss his bus. Sprinting across the icy sidewalk, he fell sprawling on his face, picked himself up, hopped aboard just in time. Then he realized that a metal pencil he had carried in his shirt pocket had stabbed him in the chest, straight toward the heart...