Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October we have been flying our lightweight Pony Edition from Honolulu to Leyte, distributing 4,000 copies there free each week while that same issue was still on sale right here at home. And the copy of our Pony Edition which Correspondent Bill Gray flew to Manila in his pocket a few weeks ago was read aloud to the internees at Santo Tomas by rescued Newscaster Don Bell of NBC. Said Gray: "Listeners accustomed to news a year old gasped, 'That's 1945!' Tears came to many eyes...
...sought safety in an underground railway tunnel which is one of Berlin's 'safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...
CARRIER WAR-Lieut. Oliver Jensen, U.S.N.R.-Simon & Schuster ($2.50) and Pocket Books...
...drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more depressed...