Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that after getting the best of everyone, 24 hours a day, Rothstein still felt unwanted, unloved and even uncertain. But the cure for this was in his billfold: "Whenever he had self-doubts he could count his money." To facilitate this, Rothstein carried all his bills in his pocket-until the roll grew so fat from graft and gambling that he had to put some of it in the bank...
...stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride. I had him in every pocket but my own, and he still came on to win. That horse looked at me with disgust when I got down after the race...
...asked Professor Quaeritor what attracted him to the study of such a fierce group. He pulled a petrified tarantula from his back pocket--"My lucky charm," he explained. "Well, chiefly it's their marital system. You see," he chuckled, "the brother in the Jivarro tribe has with his sister the jus primae noctis, as it were. Enforced incest, a droll habit, you know...
...year to $22,596 for flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when the old contract lapsed. That means a senior DC-7 pilot will pocket a lump of about $4,500 in back...
...Here, Slob." Something about the way Shelley speaks-a profession of diffidence, a perfection of timing-suggests that everyone in the audience shares his feeling. And as simply as that, Shelley puts Mister Kelly's Chicago nightclub or Mr. Sullivan's fans in his pocket...