Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season for tolerance, and thus such atrocities as Leverett House's "Secret Winter Snow Friend." This sounds like a porn film. Other campus organizations fare no better with "Secret Holiday Pal," which evokes images of an old man sitting on a park bench playing the "shiny quarter in my pocket" trick on unsuspecting eight-year-olds...
...Black Muslims in America, which was just being published by Beacon Press. In the course of our conversation, I asked him why he was so angry--why wasn't he more like Martin Luther King? Malcolm X replied, "If you are sleeping and someone puts his hand in your pocket and is stealing your money (he meant your freedom) and you wake up, what are you going to say? Are you going to say, `Would you please take your hand out of my pocket?'--or--`If you don't get your hand out of my pocket, I'm going...
...electronics. The fingernail-size chips of silicon power everything from video games and fax machines to washing machines and guided missiles. Japan and the U.S. are locked in a global struggle to control future generations of powerful chips that will form the basis of such gee-whiz products as pocket supercomputers, 3-D interactive televisions and wristwatch telephones. If the computer-chip revival here can be sustained, says Fred Zieber, president of Pathfinder Research, "you could see the return of the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label on TVs, VCRs and telephones...
...second-half collapse, however, the Crimson went home feeling pretty good about its performance last night in the chilly Briggs Cage. Harvard did pull out the win and sent our buddies form the north back to Canada (baseball maybe, basketball get real) with a big "L" in their pocket...
...feel dumb if cash fails to burn a hole in your pocket. Feel powerful...