Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central issues in People v. Bernhard Goetz was whether Goetz had reason to believe the four youths intended to rob him. Five dollars is not pocket change; Goetz would have had to open his wallet to get the bill, leaving himself vulnerable by giving Troy Canty a good look at how much money...
Hungry drivers gobble breakfast, often an Egg McMuffin, from Styrofoam cartons and slurp coffee from no-slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...
...Democratic Justice Party had labored over his speech at home all weekend. He dictated the final version to his secretary, who drafted a single handwritten copy. So when Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo got up to speak last week and pulled that piece of paper from his suit-jacket pocket, virtually no one in the crowded room was aware that history was about to be made...
...senior, North was not voted "most likely to succeed," but "most courteous" and "nicest looking." He is remembered by some as being perpetually well-groomed, even fastidious, never going anywhere without a comb in his pocket. "When Larry walked into the room, you knew it," recalls Thomas Gibbons, his former English teacher. "He had an air of self- confidence...
...printed long, canvas versions of the Constitution which it hopes every citizen in the state will sign. But at least one man has refused. "I never sign anything I can't have a copy of," he explained. (Too bad he didn't know that he could get a free pocket-size copy from the Commission on the Bicentennial in Washington. Many / other organizations are distributing copies as well...