Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weakest parts of the collection are diffused by sociology and demographic shorthand: a smoothly flowing resume substituting for characterization; the itemized contents of a lost wallet, including credit cards, club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...
When the House Committee took over Explosives B for a VCR room, enterprising directors moved their shows through the tunnels to another small storage room which has since hosted many student productions. The sign on the door reads Pocket Theater, but the room is commonly called the Kronauer Space (K-Space), after Richard Kronauer, who served as acting master when Kiely was on sabbatical in China...
From the determination with which he ate his hot dog, to the Super Bowl Ring-sized finger, to the agility he showed reaching into his pocket to extract the money for his greens fee, he had the tell-tale signs of a champion. But I did notice something odd; he seemed to favor his right rotator cuff when he lifted his golf bag. I wasn't surprised when, three years later, an injury to that self-same area knocked Jimbo out for the season. McMahon slipped out the door ostensibly because his tee time had arrived; of course...
Bantering with reporters before his 4 1/2-hour meeting with Shultz in the Kremlin on Tuesday, Gorbachev remarked, "Generally, without reason I do not go anywhere, particularly to America. This cannot be just an outing." Shultz at that point pulled an envelope out of his pocket and told Gorbachev, "You're welcome to come. I have a letter from the President, and it says...
...things look like they're going bad at the Ad Board, we'll throw a symbolic blockade up around the members. They'll learn to see things the right way. In any case, there won't be a next time because we have Dean Spence in our symbolic pocket, so to speak. Next time we'll just remind him that the controversial speech quota has been filled, and the speech will be cancelled...