Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel afraid. Or angry. Instead, he even found himself glancing toward the curb where a chauffeur dozed, or maddeningly seemed to doze, at the wheel of a parked limousine. There was still nobody else on the street. He was aware that whatever it was in the thief s pocket might not be a knife. Very likely wasn't. It occurred to him to demand to see the weapon, then dodge toward the hotel. At the same time he felt constrained, in some peculiarly inappropriate way, like an actor walking through a barely rehearsed part. Bits of idiot dialogue...
...distance, though, and the pool of light in front of the hotel reassured him. Just as he reached that welcoming glare, the figure on the left cut in front of him. The other shadow moved up to just behind his shoulder. Hand thrust forward in his jacket pocket, the first figure said, "Gimme your money...
...Government has no right to do what no individual has no right to do. No individual has the power to reach into my pocket, and put the money into another person's pocket," McManus contends, adding that the Society feels that as much as 75 percent of government activity is unethical. When asked what the government can do and be ethical at the same time, McManus says only "providing for the national defense...
Henry Matson, 62, recalls the night he strolled into a bar called the Great Alaskan Bush Co. with a $12,579.64 paycheck in his pocket. At least he remembers the beginning of the night. Matson, who had been fishing for salmon in Alaska's Bristol Bay, was looking for a good time in the rowdy Anchorage saloon. And he got exactly what he wanted, according to Owner Edna Cox, who agreed to cash Matson's check. He spent the night, she said, "buying all the patrons in the club drinks, paying numerous girls for table dances, handing...
...first 10 minutes of play, it was difficult to tell that Harvard had made such a tight scouting report. The Eagles' baseline picks repeatedly caught up the Crimson defense B.C. used its forwards and low post to set fearsome picks that left the pocket shot open for some very sharp shooters Eagle Sally Madeira led all scores with eight points at halftime after hitting four of live. She finished up the game by leading all scorers with 17, just from waiting at the free throw line for passes...