Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foreign businessman and a middle-ranking government official are talking quietly in a corner. Midway through the conversation, the foreigner casually places an envelope on a chair next to him. When the foreigner rises to leave, the envelope remains behind. The government official slips it into his coat pocket a few minutes later and departs...
...late at night. You're alone in your room. There's a knock at the door. You open it to find an FTD delivery man holding a bouquet of flowers. He reaches into his pocket and nonchalantly pulls out a blue water pistol. "You're dead," he says...
...broke into Persian: "Believe me, it is in your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...
...during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete his mission. Says Treptow's nephew, Lyle Gehring of Roseville, Calif.: "The diary was found in his uniform pocket. It was quite bloody at the time...
...claiming that he does not go to nightclubs or bet on dog races. It took the jury only five minutes to decide in Hill's favor last year. But the husband is appealing. Hill meanwhile has already had to pay a lawyer $2,500 out of his own pocket. Perhaps worse, the yen for litigation nearly proved contagious. "I wanted to cross-file," Hill admits, "but my lawyer reminded me that would be returning evil for evil...