Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yellow-white leather gleamed, and you picked it up and untied the sneaker lace wound around it to keep the pocket good over the winter. The tennis ball, which had anchored the pocket since September, popped out once you put it on, but it felt good and strong after its seven-month hibernation...
Allen Carter, 29, who works for International Transtar, explains that for professional drivers, two chief problems are fatigue and boredom. Truckers fight off sleep with speed and pep pills (known as "pocket rockets"), but stories of dozing at the wheel are not uncommon. The only way to make money on the 2½-day trip from Florida to New York is by driving the 23 hrs. straight through. Carter thinks nothing of leaving Chicago and deadheading home to St. Cloud, Fla., without a break...
...bought a house in Key West in 1931 and lived there nine years. While he was away covering the Spanish Civil War, his second wife Pauline built a $20,000 swimming pool in the garden fed by saltwater wells. Upon hearing the price, he took a penny from his pocket and had it embedded in the concrete, saying, "Here, you might as well have my last cent." Also in the yard is a birdbath made out of a urinal from nearby Sloppy Joe's bar. The story is that Hemingway deserved it because he had peed away a fortune...
...combination, the arrangements as-,ure that no defense supplier will suffer out-of-pocket losses as a result of the Ira nian cutbacks. On the other hand, the potential loss of Iran as a market for U.S. arms sales means that weapons makers will have to look elsewhere for business, and that raises the prospect of some potentially explosive competition for customers in the 1980s...
...your uncle Einstein. Let me therefore tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny beginning of a paunch. In addition an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth-if he happens to have a cigar-and a pen in his pocket or his hand. But crooked legs and warts he does not have, and so he is quite handsome ... It is indeed a pity that...