Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back to the room and opens the other two windows. Timing himself with a small Swiss pocket alarm clock, the Pope then does his physical exercises. At 71, he has discarded his rowing machine and limits his exercise to 15 minutes of Swedish drill, bending his knees and flexing his arms with wall-springs...
Thus they walked beyond the town. "A small stone quarry, deserted and bleak, lay quite near to a still completely urban house. . . . Now they loosened their hold of K., who stood waiting dumbly, took oft their top hats and wiped the sweat from their brows with pocket handkerchiefs, meanwhile surveying the quarry. The moon shone down with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses...
Coming just at the time when the conduct of labor and management indicates that these two groups have developed a modicum of responsibility extending beyond their own pocket-lining, the Hartley bill, passed by the House and awaiting Senate action, threatens to annul whatever facility in the art of resolving labor disputes has been acquired in the last decade. Opponents have charged that the bill is the product of spite and rancour. But even if it was framed with the best motives, the fact that it issued from a committee whose chairman was so interested in labor affairs that...
...remove the hope of attaining international cooperation. If a stiffer attitude towards Russia appears to be justified, the Taft proposal for withdrawing the Baruch plan raises the problem of how tough to get. The removal of such a facet of international organization as atomic energy seems in effect a pocket-veto by the United States of world cooperation. Unqualified use of the toughness policy may result in the destruction of the United Nations pattern...
Lawrence S. Thompson's Notes on Bibliokleptomania, an informative "review of centuries of thievery" which shows that neither age nor instruction can reform the absent-minded book borrower or save the true bibliophile from the temptation to pick up and pocket volumes that catch his fancy. One of history's most eminent bibliokleptomaniacs seems to have been Cardinal Pamfili (who later became Pope Innocent X). Charged one day with book-lifting from a private library, the book-loving Cardinal denied the charge with such fury that-the stolen volume fell from beneath his robes with a resounding crash...