Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commander in Chief. It was his war, just like all those bills up on the Hill were his bills. He tried to run the war like he ran Congress, with bluster and threat one minute, humility and doubt the next. He had the documents in his inner coat pocket, votes on his legislation, the latest body count from Viet...
...shoot-out with federal agents near Seattle in December. But Pierce's year as a fugitive ended quietly one night last week when several dozen agents surrounded him in Rossville, Ga. When he was apprehended, Pierce was sporting two pistols in his belt and a derringer in one pocket. Police found automatic weapons, a crossbow and arrows, fragmentation grenades and a pipe bomb in the van he was driving. Now serving the two-year term for counterfeiting in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Pierce also faces questioning in murder and armed-robbery cases...
Donald Geddes, a former editor at Pocket Books, made the sales pitch of his life in 1943. Badgering a reluctant pediatrician who felt that he lacked the knowledge to attempt a book on babies, Geddes tried a bit of psychological % judo. At 25 cents a copy, he declared, a baby book was bound to sell briskly no matter what it said. So, he concluded, "the book we want doesn't have to be very good...
...skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from a neighbor...
...century, later, Tassel met a more hospitable reception. "When I began to photograph, human barriers disappeared. Christians, Moslems and Jews, the ordinary and the more sophisticated--all were awed by the pocket images of their homes, shops, or places of worship as they looked 100 or more years ago," he says...