Word: pocketing
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...comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing wartime propaganda for the British government, Greene described an Englishman's shooting of a German lieutenant-and then finding in the dead man's pocket a picture of his baby...
Near the water, looking away onto the ocean, stood one figure, alone. She wore a bright white sweatshirt and olive shorts, and a baseball cap that made her look like a little boy. She had her hands in her pocket, meditatively. A noblelooking golden retriever lay on the sand beside her with its back straightened and its head perked up, staring into the ocean like its owner. This is the Cape Cod I have always remembered; it was serene and sublime. There is a feeling about the place that anticipates seclusion with a comfortable other...
During a search of Patterson after his arrest, the police officers found, in his inner shirt pocket, a "small green plastic bag with a small white rock-like substance," which they believe to be crack-cocaine, Johnson said. Lab tests are being conducted to determine the exact nature of the substance...
Gilmore netted 21 points and added 18 assists over the weekend and is currently the best pick-pocket in the Ivies, averaging 4.5 steals per game...
...novel in them if only their damned editors and creditors would give them the time to write it. Pete Dexter, 51, is one of the happy few journalists who have lived up to this belief. While working as a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, he moonlighted God's Pocket (1984), a gritty story set in that city's seamier neighborhoods, which earned an unusual amount of attention for a first novel. Three others followed, including Paris Trout (1989), which won the National Book Award...