Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland, sharp local skirmishes along the Narew river south of East Prussia's border. At week's end the Germans reported a Russian attack of great strength (Berlin said 27 divisions) at the northern end of the quiet front-against the 100-mile-wide, 60-mile-deep pocket in Latvia. Clearing of this flank might be a preliminary to action in East Prussia and north Poland...
...looked as if we were up against it," wrote Lieut. Such to his wife Eve in Beckenham, Kent, "when I suddenly remembered your lock of hair in my pocket. Yours was four-thousandths of an inch thick and dead-black. So four strands were fixed on four of my fine needles-it took me hours-and the surgeon, who is a marvelous chap, let me watch your hair sewing up chaps' nerves in the head. Today there are four men walking around with your hair in their heads...
From Moscow's Kursk Station General Charles de Gaulle chugged off for home, one day last week, in a swirling Russian snowstorm. He was sleepy but happy, for in his pocket was a treaty of alliance and mutual assistance between Russia and France. It had been signed at 4:40 that morning, after an all-night session that began with a 20-course Russian banquet attended by U.S. and British diplomats and members of the military missions to Moscow...
...eighth wonder of the world. The production, what with buying and brilliantining the historic Ziegfeld Theater, cost $1,350,000. The show had a record-breaking advance ticket sale of $550,000. It opened at a $24 top, with enough big names on the program for a vest-pocket Who's Who, enough plushy people in the audience for a reception to royalty. And in the crowded lounge during intermission, with flunkeys passing champagne, it looked like...
...immense success of paperbound reprints, paper rationing has accustomed readers to cheaper books, with thinner paper, smaller type, narrower margins. And keen competition in the cheap-book field has been further assured this year by Multimillionaire Marshall Field's purchase of Simon & Schuster (including a 49% interest in Pocket Books), countered by the purchase of the old reprint house of Grosset & Dunlap by a syndicate composed of Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club, and Harper & Bros...