Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Trader John Sesko goes straight from his company's trading floor to an automated bank machine elsewhere in Manhattan. Sesko punches its buttons, withdraws $100 and puts the money in his pocket. The cash, he says, "gives me a sense of security." Then he climbs onto a commuter train and sleeps all the way home to suburban Connecticut...
...then we got a goal late in the third period. In a moment of temoprary insanity (or was it inanity?) I took the tennis ball out of my pocket and threw it hard...
Offensive Line: The big boys up front have done a solid job up front protecting Mr. Yohe, although: a)their job is made easier by the fact that Yohe scrambles out of the pocket on nearly every play, and b)their job is made harder by the fact that Yohe scrambles out of the pocket on nearly every play...
Simon and Schuster bought the book to include in the opening of their new Pocket Books hardcover line for "double the price" that any other unpublished author had ever received from any publishing firm, says Thernstorm's literary agent Lynn...
...have reached that point in the presidential cycle when old political war- horses come in from the summer's foraging among the grass roots and bet their pocket change on a candidate. A year ahead is a little crazy, sure -- but take heed. Back in 1959 a tousle-haired young reporter for the Boston Globe came home after some lonely wanderings with a young Senator and mused on paper that the Kennedys were coming. Bob Healy's evidence was mostly in his gut -- but so right. The New York Times's Johnny Apple roamed the prairie hustings with Jimmy...