Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected sensation which Pat Hurley pulled out of his pocket was merely a copy of the Declaration of Teheran (which he said he had authored in the original draft...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, Scribner and Little, Brown, who ganged up to keep Field from buying the big reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap, have ganged up again-this time with giant Curtis Publishing Co.-to put out 25? paper-back Bantam Books in opposition to Field's Pocket Books...
...lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places. Webbie used to hide a .38 in his pocket going to school, and fire it off during recess...
...coincidence, was Thomas Cashen, an oldtime A.F. of L. man whose Switchmen's Union is still part of the A.F. of L. In effect John L. Lewis, for whom the A.F. of L. considers nothing too good right now, had five of labor's votes in his pocket...
...dictator does not filch from the public treasury. That would be picking his own pocket. For Trujillo is the Dominican Republic. His personal monopolies include salt, tobacco, employe insurance, beer...