Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days later authorities revealed that a farewell note in a trouser pocket had confirmed what many had already surmised: Rudolph Hess, the last surviving member of Nazi Germany's high command, had finally escaped his captors by taking his own life...
Bank Robber Daniel Candelairo had just sprinted out the door of California Savings & Loan in Oakland last summer, when his getaway was rudely interrupted. The bundle of cash he had stuffed into his pocket had been booby- trapped with a security device. The wad exploded, disrupting the hapless thief's escape and causing second- and third-degree burns around his genitals...
First, Phil Niekro's younger brother Joe was nabbed in a Minnesota game with an emery board in his hip pocket. He was captured on film, during an umpires' search, casually tossing something with his right hand while jettisoning something else with his left. A patch of sandpaper, described by the umps as "contoured for a finger," was also recovered from the grass. Niekro was ejected...
Philadelphia's Kevin Gross was obliged to stand mute after an umpire came out to the mound last week and found sandpaper glued into the pocket of his mitt. Unless Gross was building a dollhouse for his daughter between innings, he was caught. Sounding like a dazed mountain climber, the Phillies' pitcher kept mumbling, "It was just there." His embarrassment was so acute that Gross at first shushed the players' union (as opposed to the carpenters' union) when it came to his defense...
Having been directly involved in research on the posteruptive soils of Mount St. Helens ((ENVIRONMENT, June 15)), I was interested in your observation that the burrowing of pocket gophers has helped mix and enrich the soil. The "bulldozer" effect of the pocket gophers and other small mammals should not be emphasized as or assumed to be the primary reason for the rapid soil development in the area. After the soils were buried by thick layers of pyroclastic flows and debris, complex physical and chemical processes began, aided mainly by the naturally produced acid rain resulting from gases emitted...