Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching a $75 million communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay and lightening the mood by wearing a black beret and dark glasses and holding a movie clapper board. His name badge read...
...adds the spice to a fundamentally sincere tale of a man with talent who seems genuinely lost in a land that does not understand his skill. Cornish stays in England through World War II, working in the spy business, but eventually returns to Canada with a fortune in his pocket, a talent for spotting great art and a lonely heart...
...spinner would work better. Some time later, the ranger suggested adding weight and reached for new sinkers in Coolidge's tackle box. Rasped the parsimonious Coolidge: "What did you do with those two pieces of lead you took off the line the other day and put in your pocket...
Daniel Steiner '54, Bok's trusted aid and dance instructor, stood adjacent to the president throughout the conference, whispering sweet nothings in his ear and sneaking large-denomination bills out of Bok's suit pocket...
Hill added that the survey, which he called a "quick study," was financed "completely out-of-pocket...