Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...baiting Marvin Griffin left some mighty scuffy footprints on the sands of time. Griffin aides and allies, including his brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
Double Take. In Grand Rapids. Robert Schepperly, after chatting with newly made bar friends, noticed that someone had picked his pocket of $50, went out to look for the thief with his friends, who knocked him down and took the rest of his money...
...medical corps, was measuring the power density of microwave radiation from radar beams aboard the guided-missile cruiser Galveston. All at once he felt a slight burning sensation in his backside. Dr. Johnson happened to have a couple of neon lamps (the size of flashbulbs) in his hip pocket. With no wires or other connections, the lamps had glowed and heated up when he got in the way of radar waves...
Warming up for the new campaign, Old Earl ordered posters, stamped envelopes and 100,000 pocket combs. In the months ahead, Earl will shun television ("It makes me look like a monkey climbing a string"), happily concentrate on crossroads appearances in Louisiana's 64 parishes, whip up shouts of "Pour it on 'em, Earl...