Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach. At sea, during an air operation, Halsey does not exercise detailed, tactical control of the fleet: that is the responsibility of the top carrier admiral (in this case, McCain). But Halsey wears the Navy's gold wings above the left breast pocket of his open-necked, tieless shirt. He won them at 52, and is regarded by career aviators as a reasonable facsimile of a high-octane air admiral...
...reciprocal-trade bill, and was set to approve Bretton Woods and the San Francisco Charter. Russia has already been offered membership on the Combined Coal Committee, and would be invited at Berlin to join the Combined Production and Resources Board and the Combined Food Board. Moreover, in his pocket, Harry Truman held Marshal Stalin's request for $6 billion in postwar loans...
...reached for another cigaret, then jabbed the pack into his pocket. I let him talk: "He just got a letter from his wife. Just came in with this mail. He came up to me and I knew (here was something wrong before he spoke. Matter of fact he didn't say much. Sometimes they talk. But he just couldn't. He just handed me the letter and said: 'This is the first I've had from my wife in six months...
Ping-Pong Gun, Portable Planetarium. The air branches of the services became the prime movers in the synthetic devices program. They have invented thousands of efficient gadgets, many of them still secret, ranging from a cardboard pocket blinker for practicing ship signals to a portable planetarium. Some others...
...becoming a journalistic colossus. Besides papers in the nation's two largest cities, and his explorations into the magazine and country weekly fields, he now owns a Cincinnati radio station (WSAI), a syndicated Sunday supplement (Parade), and parts of two big book-publishing companies (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books, Inc.-TIME, Nov. 13). But reports that he is about to set up a newspaper shop in Philadelphia and Denver are false, he says: "I don't think I believe in chain newspaper publishing...