Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agriculture Department had price news that tickled every American right in the breadbasket, just when a rise in the cost of living (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was hitting him in the pocket. Prices of beef will slip 5% to 10% in the next few months, and prices of fruits and vegetables will also drop, perhaps enough to pace a dip in the consumer price index...
Cache. In Knoxville, Tenn., police discovered that the $150 for which John Maples was searching had fallen through a hole in his pocket into the hollow center of his artificial...
...word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own person, Tanner enunciates Shavian doctrine on such sublunary matters as sex, social convention, and moral passion. As Don Juan in the hell scene he discourses with equal brilliance on the Life Force, the nature of Nature, and the whole duty of man, arguing against the Devil's hedonistic creed of "love...
...them microbiologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...
Despite a climate in which anything grows, despite proven oilfields, brimming natural resources and a population of 87 million. Indonesia is mired by pocket-sized rebellions, technical ineptitude and whimsical administration. An overworked printing press has lately shot the rupiah (legally pegged at 11.40 to the dollar) as high as 200 on the black market. Commodity prices have risen 40% since January. And while its economy was deteriorating at an accelerated rate, its politics and its government were at a standstill...