Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When captured by the Germans, each American is given a kit containing a combination diary and photograph album, notebooks, pocket Testament, athletic equipment, pencils, checkers or chess, a mouth organ, etc. He also gets a German-English dictionary, a book of light reading, and a letter explaining educational courses he can take through the Y. The Y sponsors trade schools for prisoners (instructors are captured Americans), supplies the textbooks...
...Spyros Skouras carried the worries of Hollywood about Cinemagnate Rank. Was Mr. Rank willing to come to terms, or was he getting ready for a knockdown, drag-out fight for a chunk of Hollywood's world monopoly? Last week persuasive Mr. Skouras clippered back to Manhattan. In his pocket was the deal with Rank...
...sitting at the next table when I sat down-a fresh-faced young man. . . . He did not look a day older than 21, I decided. He just sat there looking at the wall opposite and, after a moment, produced a packet of cigarets and began to fumble in his pocket for a match. I struck my lighter and ... he smiled his thanks...
Caught in the pocket were the remnants of two Japanese divisions and some auxiliary units commanded by Lieut. General Kenya Mataguchi, captor of Singapore...
...Mencken, happy over the soldier-sailor fan mail that followed pocket-size reprinting of his autobiographical Happy Days and Heathen Days, exuberated with an old-fashioned Mencken slambang: "That is the difference between a soldier and a civilian. The letters you get from civilians come from those who don't like your books...