Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl of son and current junior presidential aide Major John. Ike's highlight: helping apple-of-eye grandson David, 10, pick out a $2 cloisonne necklace, a $1 box of stationery, a $1 spelling game for sister Susan. "Well," muttered Ike after peeling the bills out of his pocket, "we did the best we could...
Operating with him on the Canadiens first line are Dickie Moore, third highest scorer in the league, and Maurice's own younger brother and heir apparent, Henri ("Pocket Rocket") Richard, only 22 but already a solid all-round center who has made 29 points this year. Together they form the best line in hockey (40 goals, 55 assists to date)-with the ironic result that the league's leading scorer (40 points), Bernie ("Boom Boom") Geoffrion, is relegated to the second line...
...electronic controls and gadgets of all kinds for the new family of missiles and space probes. Out of this vast spending already have come miniature electronic brains and controls for machines, and a whole new family of electric civilian devices. Transistors and other semiconductors are as useful in pocket radios and TV sets as in missiles...
...Creature Was Stirring. In London, former Department Store Santa Claus T. T. Fisher-Brent complained in a letter to the Star that after one "youngster croaked in my ear his recital of wants, he soon slipped away with a big smile on his face and my wallet in his pocket...
...machinery and its Siemens heavy electrical gear (generators for Mexico, transformers for South America). West German women wear Berlin's smartly tailored fashions. Three fancy new hotels have just opened, including the Berlin Hilton, featuring New York-style high prices and bellhops who hop to orders received by pocket radio. The only reason that West...