Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beneficial to the church," said an Anglican official last week. "But, alas, they have only perhaps five,'ten, or at most 15 years of useful life to give." Instead of the usual three-or four-year course, the church educates them for parish service with an 18-month "pocket" course, minus the usual classical-language requirements...
Backlash. In Asheville, N.C., after a man walked out of George Huffmon's store with two fishing reels, George noticed that a hook had caught on the counter, followed the line out of the store and down the street two blocks into the coat pocket of Shoplifter Kyle Williams...
...hand and in transit at Eastertide, were a varied company. In age they ranged from Ireland's white-thatched, sprightly President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, 76, to Jordan's young (23), furnace-tested King Hussein. In geography and position they ranged from vest-pocket-sized Denmark's Premier and Foreign Minister, H. C. (for Hans Christian) Hansen, to vast Brazil's powerful, unbending War Minister and possible presidential candidate, Henrique Teixeira Lott. But for all their differences, they had one thing in common: all were friends of the U.S., and they meant their visits...
...Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable to brows of every altitude, including snobbish Critic Edmund (Axel's Castle) Wilson, even parboiled eggheads could carry...
...dirty lyin' skunk," the man in the black hat snarled. "Reach for them plowhandles an' I'll blow ya in half-pocket-high!" Such scenes of life in the wild but carefully censored West are familiar to every watcher of Zworykin's magic lamp these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas...