Word: pocketing
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Hawkins has been displaying true grit all his life. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1939 with a seventh-grade education and $14 in his pocket and soon had a job as a guard at an Alcoa Aluminum plant. Saving carefully, he managed to amass $400 to purchase a small plot of land in south-central Los Angeles, then a poor but peaceful community. With his own hands, he built a three-room wooden shack and soon sent home to Gould, Ark., for wife Elsie, four daughters and his father, a minister in the Holiness Church...
When Robin Phillips was 15 and a student at Britain's Bristol Old Vic, his impoverished rural parents provided him ? 1 a week for pocket money, obtained "by selling things from the house, including their wedding presents." The sacrifice bore fruit. At 20, Phillips was acting with Laurence Olivier; by the time he was 30, he was an established director in London's West End (Tiny Alice), on Broadway (Abelard and Heloise) and, by preference, in Britain's regional repertory theaters. His success was certified in 1973 when, at age 31, he won one of the most...
...jealousies, morale problems. The beauty of our system is that it's done totally by computer." Each school will receive projections on how students should score on national achievement tests, based on the past three years' performances. In schools that outperform the computer projections, every teacher will pocket an extra...
Argeros declined to say how many of the shoplifters caught are Harvard students. "I'll say this throughout all of society6," he said, adding. "One big factor is that the person who drops a 20-cent pen in his pocket and walks out doesn't think he's done anything significant. Multiply that by 1000 and you cut into profits...
Authorities have said that Paradiso is a prime suspect in the Webster investigation. In addition to the January tip, police considered him because Ianuzzi's body was discovered in a salt marsh near Saugus, Mass., where fishermen later found Webster's pocket book and wallet...