Word: pocketing
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...killing nerves, the pain doctors have been injecting alcohol into the tiny nerves of the vertebrae. For problems with facet joints, they sometimes insert heated needles into the area's nerves, an acupuncture-like technique called surgical diathermy or facet denervation. Another popular tool of the pain clinicians: pocket-size electrical stimulators that patients carry around with them. Held against a painful area these gadgets provide a little shock that produces a tingling sensation and temporarily blocks the pain...
What has most complicated analysis of Reagan's recent finances has been the huge funds that he has been raising, with more than $1 million usually passing through his hands annually. Has this money gone into his own pocket, to his presidential campaign fund or to the conservative political groups that he has organized? At times it is unclear. On the same trip, for example, he has made speeches and raised money for his personal account and for his political fund...
...landscape painter. Alfgif finds himself beset by a nameless fear. He traces the source to supernatural broadcasts from "the Purpose," which may be the devil, or simply a pantheistic deity. Alfgif gets a lot of help from a winsome polecat named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage...
...either sign or veto the measure. If he does neither the statute will become law without his signature if the legislature is still in session Saturday night at midnight, when the time limit on the bill expires. But if the legislature "proroges" or adjourns before Saturday night, King could pocket veto the bill by not acting...
When the new edition hit the bookstores late last year, 100,000 copies were snapped up in a matter of days. The smash seller? A revised and expanded version of the Atheist's Pocket Dictionary, first issued in 1973 and put out by a state-run political publishing house called Politizdat. The 280-page paperback, though "designed for propagandists, lecturers and organizers of atheistic work," has some of the appeal of forbidden fruit; few books are ever published in the U.S.S.R. that deal with religion, even in a backhanded...