Word: pocketing
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...listen if you will,” she said, putting a hand in her pocket and cocking her head to the side...
...First hit song based on a video game, Pac-Man Fever: "I got a pocket full of quarters...
...husband, Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge; in Atlanta. A witty Southerner who started and ran a successful business, she learned on a TV news show that her husband planned to divorce her. Later, under subpoena, she testified that he kept bundles of $100 bills, allegedly unreported donations, in a coat pocket in the couple's hall closet. Although he denied that and other charges, she turned over 77 of the bills from the stash, which she said she had often relied on to supplement her $50 a week allowance, and the Senate later denounced...
...vivid, especially when Becker describes his encounters with people fleeing Kim's totalitarian rule. In northern China, Becker joined a Chinese shopkeeper to hunt for refugees, for whom the Chinese government was paying 60? bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final...
...someone has taken the thermos concept out of the lunch box and into the dining room, with style. Bodum's new double-walled drinking glasses ($12 to $20 a pair at www.bodum.com) feature two layers of heat-resistant glass. Your drink is suspended in the inner layer, with a pocket of air in between to insulate sensitive fingers from hot espresso or, alternatively, prevent warm hands from melting ice cubes in soft drinks. An added benefit: condensation is contained in the inner wall, eliminating the need for coasters...