Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian bloc was still raising its ante elsewhere. Foreign Minister Molotov, who had agreed to an internationalized Trieste at the Big Four meeting, proposed a new ten-point plan that would put Trieste in Tito's vest pocket. Tito's Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj demanded more Italian territory, barked that otherwise Yugoslavs would "fight for their rights." At week's end Molotov declared that, despite the Byrnes speech, Poland would keep its present western frontiers...
...Fast Way. Heidt sold his annuities, put $200,000 in thousand-dollar bills in his pocket, called on the owner, a onetime gambler named Jimmy Contratto...
Heidt reached into his pocket and began counting out thousand-dollar bills. Contratto's jaw dropped. "I have $45.000 worth of liquor in the cellar." he demurred...
...fitted up as a living-bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. The Government supplies all equipment, ice for the icebox, oil for the lamps, coal to keep the car warm when temperature nips around 55° below. Passing trains drop off magazines and newspapers. Main out-of-pocket expense: food, which is bought along...
Before throwing his suits into the bag, Vag rifled the pockets for papers. Nothing but a crumpled cigarette. He turned the pocket inside out and let the tobacco fall to the floor. He got down and blew it into the fireplace...